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From: dave@uwvax.UUCP (Dave Cohrs)
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Subject: Re: /tmp versus temporary file types
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Date: Tue, 15-Oct-85 06:35:29 EDT
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> If you instead use the pathname to find the device, you run into
> a different problem:  what if the named file exists?  Namei currently
> will return the inode for that file.  So you must also kludge namei
> to ignore the last file name argument.  Somehow, this does not
> `feel' like the right solution either.

How about requiring that a file opened O_TEMP not exist.  If the file
exists, you can't really make it temporary (well, you could, but it feels
wrong).

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