On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 8:35 AM, Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > Look around for AIO. Look around for the loop driver. Look around for > a number of things that do "fget()" and that you completely ignored.
.. actually, there are more instances of "get_file()" than of "fget()", the aio one just happened to be the latter form. Lots and lots of ways to get ahold of a file descriptor that keeps it open past the "last close". Linus -- 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/