> > Well, if there's not a single dirent, you cannot retrieve the data,
>
> Of course you can, you can pass and fd for an unliked file
> everywhere using AF_LOCAL descriptor passing.
But this assumes the system doesn't crash, while
fsync() seems meant more as a protection against
the system going down unexpectedly ...
Rik
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