On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 07:13:44PM +0200, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote: > > > Yes, a TTL attribute on an inode: once it expires, the filesystem tosses > > > the file on next access attempt. > > > > If it were done at the next directory listing attempt, it would make > > more sense (and the removed file should not be reported as present of > > course). In the mean time, a program which may have created the file and > > remembered its name, may still access it past the expiration date if it > > is lucky (i.e., nobody looked - a quantum file system where observation > > changes the files). > > Well, I meant on the next lookup, actually, but readdir should also kill > it. This is probably too complicated.
Quite a bit more complicated than just arming a timeout for every vnode or something like that, yes... -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org