>> Is it possible to create a vnode for a regular file in a file system >> without linking the vnode to any directory, so that it disappears >> when all open file descriptors to it are closed? (As far as I can >> tell, this isn't possible with any of the vn_* or VOP_* functions?) > That's completely normal.
It's a normal state to be in. But, as I read it, the post was asking for a way to reach that state _without_ passing through a "has a name in some directory" state; it's not clear to me whether that's possible in general (ie, without doing something filesystem-specific). /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B