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authorSergey Bugaev <bugaevc@gmail.com>2023-01-30 15:52:15 +0300
committerSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>2023-02-01 23:32:21 +0100
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hurd: Implement O_TMPFILE
This is a flag that causes open () to create a new, unnamed file in the same filesystem as the given directory. The file descriptor can be simply used in the creating process as a temporary file, or shared with children processes via fork (), or sent over a Unix socket. The file can be left anonymous, in which case it will be deleted from the backing file system once all copies of the file descriptor are closed, or given a permanent name with a linkat () call, such as the following: int fd = open ("/tmp", O_TMPFILE | O_RDWR, 0700); /* Do something with the file... */ linkat (fd, "", AT_FDCWD, "/tmp/filename", AT_EMPTY_PATH); In between creating the file and linking it to the file system, it is possible to set the file content, mode, ownership, author, and other attributes, so that the file visibly appears in the file system (perhaps replacing another file) atomically, with all of its attributes already set up. The Hurd support for O_TMPFILE directly exposes the dir_mkfile RPC to user programs. Previously, dir_mkfile was used by glibc internally, in particular for implementing tmpfile (), but not exposed to user programs through a Unix-level API. O_TMPFILE was initially introduced by Linux. This implementation is intended to be compatible with the Linux implementation, except that the O_EXCL flag is not given the special meaning when used together with O_TMPFILE, unlike on Linux. Signed-off-by: Sergey Bugaev <bugaevc@gmail.com> Message-Id: <20230130125216.6254-3-bugaevc@gmail.com>
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-rw-r--r--sysdeps/mach/hurd/bits/fcntl.h4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/sysdeps/mach/hurd/bits/fcntl.h b/sysdeps/mach/hurd/bits/fcntl.h
index 970f79b..c24a819 100644
--- a/sysdeps/mach/hurd/bits/fcntl.h
+++ b/sysdeps/mach/hurd/bits/fcntl.h
@@ -123,6 +123,10 @@
# define O_CLOEXEC 0x00400000 /* Set FD_CLOEXEC. */
#endif
+#ifdef __USE_GNU
+# define O_TMPFILE 0x00800000 /* Make a new unnamed file. */
+#endif
+
/* Controlling terminal flags. These are understood only by `open',
and are not preserved once the file has been opened. */