Saving Flash

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 09:42 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 
> > However these methods don't always work. I seem to remember seeing sites
> > that unlink the /tmp file immediately after creating it. If that happens
> > you'd need to poke around in /proc/<pid-of-flash-player>/fd.
> > 
> Now that's a clever trick. The unlinked file is still open, and you can pause 
> the player after the whole file has been loaded, and then copy it. Hard linking 
> inside /proc is not going to be permanent, so I think a copy will be required.

Yes, that's probably correct in the case of /proc.

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