Re: Anonymous vnodes?

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

>> Is it possible to create a vnode for a regular file in a file system
>> without linking the vnode to any directory, so that it disappears
>> when all open file descriptors to it are closed?  (As far as I can
>> tell, this isn't possible with any of the vn_* or VOP_* functions?)
> That's completely normal.

It's a normal state to be in.  But, as I read it, the post was asking
for a way to reach that state _without_ passing through a "has a name
in some directory" state; it's not clear to me whether that's possible
in general (ie, without doing something filesystem-specific).

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