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257 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 22 Oct 24 12:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.24s | source
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Starlevel004 ◴[22 Oct 24 16:07 UTC] No.41915728[source]▶
The actual answer is to use O_TMPFILE.
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1. cryptonector ◴[22 Oct 24 22:10 UTC] No.41919250[source]▶
Which is not portable. But also if you wanted to find your stuff again in other processes that you can't arrange to inherit shared memory and/or open FDs from the one creating it, then O_TMPFILE is not a relevant answer.