Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] new syscall: flink | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 07 Apr 2003 12:13:12 +0100 |
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On Llu, 2003-04-07 at 10:11, Olivier Galibert wrote: > 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.
/tmp is normally on another file system so its not going to work anyway
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