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To: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
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Subject: Re: rm-ing files with open file descriptors 
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Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 15:50:44 +0100
From: Horst von Brand <brand@jupiter.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
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Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> said:

[...]

> 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.

It stays around under /proc/<pid>/fd/<xxx>, so you could grab it there. It
is _announced_ as a symlink to the deleted file, but you get its contents
anyway. [2.4.18pre4]
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Horst von Brand			     http://counter.li.org # 22616
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