[Discuss] recover contents of deleted but still open file on a Linux system.

[Rich Pieri]

On Tue, 7 Jul 2020 19:44:37 -0400
Bill Bogstad <bogstad at pobox.com> wrote:

> But not all UNIX-like systems have a /proc/PID/fd directory that makes
> it easy to access the contents of
> such an unlinked file.   I don't know if the *BSDs do or not.

True, but it should be possible to find the file descriptor somehow if
the process is still running. /proc just makes that easier.

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Rich Pieri