Re: UUIDs (and devfs and major/minor numbers)

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl)
Sat, 19 Jun 1999 18:23:49 -0400

"Mark H. Wood" <mwood@IUPUI.Edu> said:

[...]

> Create them dynamically when either (1) the socket is bound, or (2) some
> program (e.g. touch) requests to create them. If created on binding, set
> an "ephemeral" bit somewhere. Any metadata operation (chown, chmod, etc.)
> clears the "ephemeral" bit. When the socket is unbound, delete the file
> if the "ephemeral" bit is set.

Sticky bit? ;-)

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