Gregory's Server@pid_eins what’s the purpose of these inodes? do they have a practical use?
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 @pid_eins oooh, that makes sense actually. Never really questioned the origin of these |
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@pid_eins what’s the purpose of these inodes? do they have a practical use? 2 comments
@pid_eins oooh, that makes sense actually. Never really questioned the origin of these |
@nilsding yes, a multitude of apis of the kernel expose these anonymous inodes these days. Eventfd, signalfd, epoll, inotify, and so on. Basically a good chunk of the kernel apis that give you an fd as a reference to some api object do this. Tremendously useful hence, and very common. But not particularly visible outside of programs since generally not visible in the fs except for /proc/self/fd/.