On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 04:44:40PM +0000, Roy Marples wrote: > How else would you solve your need to work on NFS and my need to lock > and handling crashing programs reliably?
I'm not sure that the problem of pidfile(3)-using crashing programs is serious enough on its own to justify changing the kernel. However, some open(2) or fcntl(2) advice that tells the kernel to try to unlink a file when (# opens, # links) -> (0, 1) may be generally useful for programs that use temporary files. Seems like the implementation could be tricky: in the general case, you need to turn a descriptor back to a path. Dave -- David Young dyo...@pobox.com Urbana, IL (217) 721-9981
