From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 30 19:47:10 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE47916A4CE for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 19:47:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.npubs.com (mail.zoneseven.net [209.66.100.224]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2413243FA3 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 19:47:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nielsen@memberwebs.com) Resent-Message-Id: From: Nielsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031013 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christopher Vance , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <3F9CF3F6.8307.ABC1250@localhost> <20031030003153.GC16553@aurema.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.81.6.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20031031034719.1CE445A3C88@mail.npubs.com> Resent-Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 03:47:19 +0000 (GMT) Resent-From: nielsen@memberwebs.com (Postfix Filters) Subject: Re: non-root process and PID files X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 03:47:10 -0000 X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 03:47:10 -0000 Christopher Vance wrote: > 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. WinNT (2K etc...) has this capability. Not saying that this makes it a good idea though. Nate