linux-kernel - Re: since when does linkat() on deleted /proc/$PID/fd/$num return ENOENT ?

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Date:	Sat, 31 Mar 2012 13:06:40 +0200
From:	David Madore <david+ml@...ore.org>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: since when does linkat() on deleted /proc/$PID/fd/$num return
 ENOENT ?

On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 09:53:05AM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> It was explicitly prohibited since 2.6.39:
> 
> commit aae8a97d3ec30788790d1720b71d76fd8eb44b73
> Author: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Date:   Sat Jan 29 18:43:27 2011 +0530
> 
>     fs: Don't allow to create hardlink for deleted file
<snip>

Thanks for digging this for me!

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     David A. Madore
   ( http://www.madore.org/~david/ )
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