Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:39:50 -0500 (CDT) | From | Brent Casavant <> | Subject | Re: O_NOLINK for open() |
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On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Brent Casavant wrote:
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=93032806224160&w=2 > > This link talks about file flags handling. I don't see the relevance to > this problem at all. However, this is a very long thread, so if there > is anything specific that you want to point to, then please elucidate.
Oops, my mistake -- I pasted the wrong URL. I meant this thread, this post in particular:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=88937224115435&w=2
Still, O_NOLINK would seem to be a valuable addition, and greatly simplify secure temporary file creation.
Brent
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