Recovering an unlink-ed, but still opened file

alex.burlyga.ietf alex.burlyga.ietf alex.burlyga.ietf at gmail.com
Sat Nov 28 02:46:50 UTC 2015


If you know which process and which file descriptor, should be able to just
copy from /proc/<pid>/fd/<fd> to a file. I would try that first.

Alex.
On Nov 27, 2015 16:18, "Mikhail T." <mi+thun at aldan.algebra.com> wrote:

> A deleted file, that's still opened by a process is "there" on the
> filesystem.
>
> Is there any way -- with an existing command-line utility or a new
> program using an existing API -- to give the still-valid inode a name
> again? Wouldn't that be a wonderful feature to have? Thanks!
>
>     -mi
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