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From: "Mikhail T." <mi+thun@aldan.algebra.com>
Subject: Recovering an unlink-ed, but still opened file
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Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 18:17:44 -0500
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A deleted file, that's still opened by a process is "there" on the
filesystem.

Is there any way -- with an existing command-line utility or a new
program using an existing API -- to give the still-valid inode a name
again? Wouldn't that be a wonderful feature to have? Thanks!

    -mi