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Date:      Mon, 28 Jun 1999 09:23:13 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Bodo Rueskamp <br@smilla.rueskamp.com>
To:        fare@tunes.org (Francois-Rene Rideau)
Cc:        mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA (der Mouse), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Hackers), tech-kern@netbsd.org (NetBSD Kernel), tech@openbsd.org (OpenBSD Kernel), linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu (Linux Kernel)
Subject:   Re: Improving the Unix API
Message-ID:  <199906280723.JAA23765@smilla.rueskamp.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990628010446.A5377@ZhengHe.augustin.thierry> from Francois-Rene Rideau at "Jun 28, 1999 01:04:47 am"

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> >> flink (make a new directory link for file given by descriptor),
> flink() combined with the ability to create an unlinked file
> in a given filesystem would allow for safe temporaries
> without race conditions, that could be "published" when ready.

The System V people (Solaris, Unixware) call this fattach().

; Bodo

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