Re: O_NOLINK for open()

Bodo Eggert
2007-09-14T09:08:00Z

On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Jan Kara wrote:

> > > However, it occurs to me that this problem goes away if there were
> > > a method create a file in an unlinked state to begin with. However
> > > there does not appear to be any such mechanism in Linux's open()
> > > interface.
> >
> > Having no window for creating stale temp files is nice to have. We only
> > need a clever fool to implement it.-) But since it's hard to get killed
> > just in the right moment for having a stale temp file, there is very low
> > interest for this feature.

> I don't think this is a problem. The file is simply created with link
> count 0. As soon as the process closes the file, it gets deleted. So
> there would be no stale files... Or did you mean anything else?

This feature does, AFAIK, not yet exist. Therefore we'd need a code monkey.
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