From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: rm-ing files with open file descriptors
Date: 18 Jan 2002 18:29:36 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a2almg$vtl$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lmevjrep.fsf@localhost.localdomain> <Pine.LNX.3.95.1020118163838.3008B-100000@chaos.analogic.com> <a2afsg$73g$2@ncc1701.cistron.net>
Followup to: <a2afsg$73g$2@ncc1701.cistron.net>
By author: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> 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);
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-19 2:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-18 21:11 rm-ing files with open file descriptors Doug Alcorn
2002-01-18 21:27 ` Xavier Bestel
2002-01-18 21:28 ` Ken Brownfield
2002-01-19 20:23 ` Rob Landley
2002-01-18 21:49 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-01-19 0:50 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2002-01-19 2:29 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2002-01-19 10:57 ` Xavier Bestel
2002-01-19 11:10 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2002-01-19 11:28 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-19 12:01 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2002-01-23 12:18 ` Pavel Machek
2002-01-24 9:46 ` Herbert Xu
2002-01-19 17:44 ` Kai Henningsen
2002-01-20 15:30 ` Richard Kettlewell
2002-01-20 18:21 ` Doug McNaught
2002-01-20 23:10 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2002-01-20 3:55 ` Chris Wedgwood
2002-01-19 15:21 ` Horst von Brand
2002-01-19 15:32 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2002-01-19 20:26 ` Rob Landley
2002-01-19 17:53 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2002-01-20 15:48 ` Horst von Brand
2002-01-19 20:24 ` Rob Landley
2002-01-19 11:15 ` Ville Herva
2002-01-19 12:16 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2002-01-19 12:22 ` Xavier Bestel
2002-01-19 12:29 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-19 12:46 ` Xavier Bestel
2002-01-19 13:18 ` Rogier Wolff
2002-01-19 15:24 ` Horst von Brand
2002-01-19 14:50 ` Horst von Brand
2002-01-20 14:23 ` Remi Turk
2002-01-20 20:02 ` Ville Herva
2002-01-20 20:44 ` Andreas Ferber
2002-01-20 21:08 ` Ville Herva
2002-01-21 9:06 ` Horst von Brand
2002-01-21 9:21 ` Ville Herva
2002-01-18 21:59 ` J Sloan
2002-01-19 4:18 ` Andreas Bombe
2002-01-19 14:51 ` christophe barbé
2002-01-19 18:01 ` Kai Henningsen
2002-01-20 3:43 ` christophe barbé
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-01-18 22:11 Hank Leininger
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