Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: rm-ing files with open file descriptors | From | Xavier Bestel <> | Date | 19 Jan 2002 13:46:29 +0100 |
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On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 13:29, Alexander Viro wrote: > > > On 19 Jan 2002, Xavier Bestel wrote: > > > On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 13:16, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > > > > > Well no. new_fd will refer to a completely new, empty file > > > > > which has no relation to the old file at all. > > > > > > > > > > There is no way to recreate a file with a nlink count of 0, > > > > > well that is until someone adds flink(fd, newpath) to the kernel. > > > > > > > > > > > > > This *might* work: > > > > > > > > link("/proc/self/fd/40", newpath); > > > > > > cat /proc/<id>/fd/<nr> > whatever > > > actually works. > > > > Once it's unliked ? I doubt it. > > Egads... It certainly works, unlinked or not. Please learn the basics of > Unix filesystem semantics.
Indeed, it works, but it doesn't with a true symlink. What kind of a link is that /proc/<id>/fd/<nr> entry ? It's not a symlink even if it looks like one.
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