On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 10:23:12AM -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 09:12:45PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > > 3) what happens to it if that underlying file is unlinked? > > > > Unlinking a file necessarily unlinks all the streams. So the file > > remains in existance until all fds on it are closed, including all > > the streams. > > That's a bad idea, because if the fds are closed silently, then they What? I think you completely misread me. I never said anything about closing file descriptors. I'm proprosing standard unix semantics; having a file descriptor open keeps a file in existance, even after it's unlinked.
