Re: POSIX violation by writeback error

Alan Cox
2018-09-25T16:39:34Z

> Unlike O_TMPFILE, this would require file system changes to support,
> so maybe it's not worth having something which automatically cleans up
> files that were in the middle of being written at the time of a system
> crash.

Would it. If you open a file unlink it and write to it and then have a
linkf(fd, path); your underlying fs behaviour isn't really changed it's
just you are allowed to name a file late ?

Alan