non-persistent storage?
Erik Soderquist
ErikSoderquist@gmail.com
Thu Dec 12 23:03:00 GMT 2019
On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 5:45 PM Erik Soderquist wrote:
> This is very hacky, but I believe you can get the effect you want by
> having an admin process auto-start at host startup, identify itself,
> and then set parts of its own /proc/ process ID tree as world
> read/write. I think this will give you the "destroyed even at power
> failure" impermanence you are l,booking for. I know it is not in the
> normal layouts (like /var/run/ would be), but we are working around
> limitation s imposed by Windows.
To "move"to /var/run/, the process could also build symlinks to the
location(s) in /proc/ so the other programs/users have a stable
/var/run/ location and only the auto-started process needs to know or
care about the locations in /proc/
-- Erik
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