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How can same fd in different processes point to the same file?
Say I have process 1 and process 2. Both have a file descriptor corresponding to the integer 4.
In each process however the file descriptor 4 points to a totally different file in the Open File Table ...
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rewrite existing file so that it gets replaced by new version atomically, only once fully written
I vaguely recall reading somewhere that there used to be, in some Unices a way to open an existing file for writing, with a flag that asked the kernel to use the old version (for other processes ...
