llvm dev - Nov 2017 - Experiment on how to improve our temporary file handing.

Davide Italiano <davide.italiano at gmail.com> writes:
>> I couldn't find any support for this on FreeBSD.
>>
>
> AFAIK FreeBSD supports some variant of /proc that should map Linux
> (although the mapping isn't 1:1).
> Does it lack support for this? Thanks for looking into this, BTW!
O_TMPFILE is the main thing that seems to be missing.

Cheers,
Rafael

On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 11:48 AM, Rafael Avila de Espindola
<rafael.espindola at gmail.com> wrote:
> Davide Italiano <davide.italiano at gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> I couldn't find any support for this on FreeBSD.
>>>
>>
>> AFAIK FreeBSD supports some variant of /proc that should map Linux
>> (although the mapping isn't 1:1).
>> Does it lack support for this? Thanks for looking into this, BTW!
>
> O_TMPFILE is the main thing that seems to be missing.
>
It doesn't seem unreasonable to ask FreeBSD to implement this (at
least for ufs/zfs), maybe Ed/Kostik have thoughts about it.

Thanks,

-- 
Davide

"There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more
or less solved" -- Henri Poincare

On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 01:46:32PM -0800, Davide Italiano
wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 11:48 AM, Rafael Avila de Espindola
> <rafael.espindola at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Davide Italiano <davide.italiano at gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >>> I couldn't find any support for this on FreeBSD.
> >>>
> >>
> >> AFAIK FreeBSD supports some variant of /proc that should map Linux
> >> (although the mapping isn't 1:1).
> >> Does it lack support for this? Thanks for looking into this, BTW!
> >
> > O_TMPFILE is the main thing that seems to be missing.
> >
> 
> It doesn't seem unreasonable to ask FreeBSD to implement this (at
> least for ufs/zfs), maybe Ed/Kostik have thoughts about it.
Can you please explain, how exactly O_TMPFILE functionality you asking
for relates to the /proc ? Do you want to re-link O_TMPFILE-opened
inodes into named files ?