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Date:      Fri, 27 Nov 2015 18:46:48 -0800
From:      "alex.burlyga.ietf alex.burlyga.ietf" <alex.burlyga.ietf@gmail.com>
To:        "Mikhail T." <mi+thun@aldan.algebra.com>
Cc:        freebsd-fs <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Recovering an unlink-ed, but still opened file
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If you know which process and which file descriptor, should be able to just
copy from /proc/<pid>/fd/<fd> to a file. I would try that first.

Alex.
On Nov 27, 2015 16:18, "Mikhail T." <mi+thun@aldan.algebra.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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