Dear Lazyweb. Open by inode.

[fallenpegasus]

For the past twenty years, I've always assumed that, given knowledge of a file's inode number, there was some efficient way to open(2) that file by inode instead of name, and I've just never felt the need to use it

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[vatine]

As far as I am aware, there is no convenient way of opening a file by inode from unix userspace. There might, possibly, be *ux-specific ways of doing it, depening on *ux, but your best bet would probably be HURD.

[krow]

Why do I think you are trying to do something with a temporary file?

[lishablog]

An answer from my partner, M