Re: New system call wanted: fdreopen

[Tristan Wibberley]

On Sun, 09 Dec 2012 11:27:46 -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 03:03:30PM +0000, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
>> 
>> - /proc/self/fd/* does not solve this problem because the file might no

...

> Actually, /proc/self/fd/* _will_ work.  When you do a ls -l, it looks
> like a symlink, but the files in /proc/self/fd (and /proc/<pid>/fd more
> generally) are magic.  If you open files in /proc/<pid>/fd/*, it will do
> what you want.

Oh! Cool! By reading how to solve this class of problem with google 
search results I couldn't find any indication that /proc/pid/fd/* worked 
differently than a symlink.

Thanks for your quick reply.

-- 
Tristan

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