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On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 00:05 +0100, Robert Watson wrote:
> You could=20
> achieve something of the same end by opening /dev/null and then dup2()'in=
g to=20
> the file descriptor you want to revoke, perhaps?

I might be missing something but isn't this what the deadfs vnodeops are
for?

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