Hello!
> Then the first thing that occur to you is to forcibly close an fd. You
> write some code and investigate until you discover that it *IS*
> impossible. Then you come up with an idea of implementing a special
> filesystem 'nullfs' where you shift the open file to, instead of closing
> it. Any subsequent io on this fd gives EIO.
I didn't look at the actual code yet, but isn't it possible to just
replace all inodes by invalid inodes (via make_bad_inode()) instead
of forcibly closing all the related FD's?
Have a nice fortnight
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