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> Yes, you can access them; but I don't believe you can link them. Yes you can. I remember YouTube's flash viewer back in the day would put the downloaded flv
by hiccuphippo 9y ago
> Yes, you can access them; but I don't believe you can link them.
Yes you can. I remember YouTube's flash viewer back in the day would put the downloaded flv video in /tmp and then delete it. I used to check the flash pid, go to /proc/{pid}/fd and see the symlink to the deleted file. Then a cp would give me the actual file.
- nick0garvey 9y agoI don't think this is the same as linking the file. You are not creating a new link to an existing file, you are creating a copy of it and creating a link to that. If you modified the old file after the cp, you wouldn't see the changes in the new one.