Once upon a time, Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibber...@gmail.com> said: >A common idiom on Linux is to open a file and keep the fd open so that >the underlying file can be unlinked from its directory. But if the file >needs to be read from several different parts of the codebase then due to >the file descriptor having exactly one read pointer those different parts >must be synchronised which is a relatively difficult task.
I think you can get similar behavior entirely in user space and in a fashion portable to at least BSD systems. You could fork() (which would create a separate FD in the child), pass the FD back to the parent over a socket, and then have the child exit. -- Chris Adams <cmad...@hiwaay.net> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
