On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Jann Horn <jannhorn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > I'm not too familiar with the internals of the kernel, so this question > might be stupid, and I'm not sure whether this is the right place to ask > about it, but anyway: > Why is there no flag for the "open" syscall to specify that you want the > file you're opening to be deleted? I think that it would be very useful > in combination with O_CREAT - you could create temporary files without > actually leaving files on the filesystem, given that the filesystem > supports it. The open() function behaviour is dictated both by POSIX and ISO C. You really want to ask this on either the related C library mailing list or the related POSIX standards group mailing list. libc-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - The GNU C Library help mailing list. * List for discussing GNU C Library issues and ISO C11 questions. * http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html or austin-group-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Austin Common Standards Revision List. * List for discussing POSIX related issues * http://www.opengroup.org/austin/lists.html Cheers, Carlos. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
