Christopher Vance wrote: > You can already mark a fd 'close on exec'. > > May I suggest a different feature: the ability to mark an open file > (not just its fd) 'remove on close', with permission checked at mark > time rather than close time (this status forgotten if not permitted > when set) and the unlink actually done at close time only if the file > has exactly one link and one open file instance at that time.
If all you have is an fd, you can not get from an fd to a path without an exhaustive search of the disk, in most FS's. Also, leaving the path peresent permits someone to hard-link it to some other file, to make it stay around. Since /var has a /var/tmp, this would be a real danger, I think. -- Terry _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
