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Re: Anonymous vnodes?



On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 06:13:17PM -0400, Theodore Preduta wrote:
> 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?)

Linux has O_TMPFILE for this, but we don't support this extension so
far.

Joerg


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