Saving Flash

Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com
Fri Nov 13 14:42:20 UTC 2009


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.

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