Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 15:38:26 +0300 (IDT)
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On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Mark E. wrote:

> I'd like to have a consensus on the right interface(s) to give an fd the 
> 'remove-on-close' attribute before starting again on this. My original 
> proposal if I remember correctly was for a 'O_TEMPORARY' or 
> 'O_REMOVE_ON_CLOSE' attribute that would be passed to open().

I thought that this was supposed to solve the situation where the
application deletes an open file, no?  If so, the challenge is to turn
on this flag automatically inside the `remove' function.