On 19 Jan 2002, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 13:16, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:
> > > > 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);
> >
> > cat /proc/<id>/fd/<nr> > whatever
> > actually works.
>
> Once it's unliked ? I doubt it.
Egads... It certainly works, unlinked or not. Please learn the basics of
Unix filesystem semantics.
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