Re: rm-ing files with open file descriptors

[Xavier Bestel]

On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 13:16, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:
> > > Well no. new_fd will refer to a completely new, empty file
> > > which has no relation to the old file at all.
> > > 
> > > There is no way to recreate a file with a nlink count of 0,
> > > well that is until someone adds flink(fd, newpath) to the kernel.
> > > 
> > 
> > This *might* work:
> > 
> > link("/proc/self/fd/40", newpath);
> 
> cat /proc/<id>/fd/<nr> > whatever
> actually works.

Once it's unliked ? I doubt it.