Ingo Oeser writes:
> The thing is, that a fd is valid from sucessful open to
> sucessful close. So everything this fd depends on, is open too.
>
> But we could introduce a new signal (bad, since not POSIX), or
> use a new semantic for an existing one (even worse) to say "Hey,
> this fd is dead now! Any use from now on will cause errors."
We already have support for making the inode on a fd into a
permanently bad inode which returns EIO on every access: see
make_bad_inode(). vhangup also already deals with this sort of thing
for tty devices already.
--Stephen
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