Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 08:38:59 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: O_TEMPORARY
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On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Mark E. wrote:

> > That > is, simply record each open file in the per-handle array that you
> > invented for the O_TEMPORARY feature, even if it is not open with
> > O_TEMPORARY.
> 
> If we go this way, then let's take it one step further and have it store the 
> flags used to open the file with, a flag for 'seek past eof', etc. so it can 
> be used by many file handling routines and not just the O_TEMPORARY ones.

...and add O_TEMPORARY support to fcntl, and let fstat know about the 
per-fd info, so it could easily fetch the file's name and hash it for 
_invent_inode without going through the hoops of undocumented features, 
and...

I just didn't think I should throw all those ideas on you, but maybe you 
feel like doing all that, too ;-)