Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Apr 2003 11:11:20 +0200 | From | Olivier Galibert <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] new syscall: flink |
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On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 04:35:56AM -0400, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > There is at most one path associated with an opened file - d_path on > file->f_dentry. If a fd has no path, don't permit flink(). > Alternatively, flink() could have 3 arguments, 2 like link and an opened > fd, which would atomically do if fd describes the same object as buf, > link buf to newname.
That breaks one of the main uses, creating with open a temporary file in /tmp, unlinking it, then later hooking it up somewhere else in the filesystem.
OG.
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