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From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
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On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Larry McVoy wrote:

> Come on Pavel, in order to make this happen, you have to
> 
> 	a) run the installer as root
> 	b) know the next pid which will be allocated
> 	c) put the symlink in /tmp/installer$pid
> 
> and do all before that pid gets used.  Have you actually be able to
> do that?  I'd like to see how you did so without knowing exactly when
> root was going to install the package and without filling up /tmp with
> 64,000 symlinks.

Or just sit and do getdents() until installer* shows up and then create
data*...

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