Re: 'Undeleting' an open file

[Alex Riesen]

On 10/7/05, Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > Files are deleted if the last reference is gone. If you play a music file
> > > > and unlink it while it's playing, it won't be deleted untill the player
> > > > closes the file, since an open filehandle is a reference.
> > > BTW, I've always wondered: is there a way to un-unlink such a file?
> > Access via /proc/PID/fd/* seems to work:
> Did you try linking it?
>

ln: creating hard link `testfile2' to `/proc/14282/fd/3': Invalid
cross-device link
Pity :)
"cp" works, btw.
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