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From: fbp@cybvax0.UUCP (Rick Peralta)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: resident files
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Date: Fri, 2-Aug-85 09:24:20 EDT
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>> Is there a facility in un*x to move a file into memory while it's open ?
>
>Now, if you just want to ...

As the question was academic and only designed to invoke comments
(like yours), suggestions don't really have to work.  As for the
technique I would assume that there are a lot of ways that it could
be accomplished.  Suggestions so far have been to increase the cache,
create a "ram disk" and make a set of open, read, write, seek and
close functions to use malloc area, and pseudo devices have been
made so far.  I'm inrested in playing with the ideas of implementing
each (as an intellectual exorcise) and see what problems and benefits
there are.

Possable this should be in net.unix.dreams ?

Rick  ...!cybvax0[!dmc0]!fbp

"A likely story.  I don't believe a word of it."