Re: ????mux and firmlink

[Niels Möller]

Neal H Walfield <neal@cs.uml.edu> writes:

> No.  Consider what happens when you mv a file which processes have
> open: the inode stays the same and any users continue using it is if
> nothing happened.  Only new users (i.e. those who call open after the
> mv) will see that the file no longer exists or has been replaced,
> etc.

I guess it would be possible to override that behaviour, by inserting
a suitable translator at the right place. It might make sense for
files opened in O_APPEND mode (like logfiles usually are). But then
again, there are probably better ways of doing it, perhaps by having a
syslog-like process attach to a node in the filesystem.

/Niels