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"Greg A. Woods" wrote:
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>[ On Wednesday, July 9, 2003 at 13:00:03 (-0700), Greywolf wrote: ]
>> Subject: Re: POSIX shm_open() vs. mmap(MAP_ANON|MAP_SHARED)....
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>> Um, slightly off-topic, but wouldn't funlink() be somewhat disastrous in
>> practice?
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>No more than unlink(), provided that the link count was only one;
>alternately the pathname could be cached in the kernel.  ;-)

I think that funlink(2) as an idea doesn't really make sense.
unlink(2) specifically operates on directory entries, not on files.

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