quasi-[OT] Adobe Flash

[Suvayu Ali]

Hi Patrick,

On Wednesday 20 October 2010 05:15 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 15:57 -0700, suvayu ali wrote:
>>> Does this function wait until the .flv is fully downloaded?
>>>
>>
>> No it doesn't. You have to call it after you are sure that the full
>> video has been downloaded. You can do this by looking at the cache
>> progress bar on the flash player.
>
> Actually what I do is hard-link to the flash file in /tmp, thus keeping
> a handle to the file so it won't disappear when the Flash process
> terminates, then copy the link once I'm sure it has completely
> downloaded.
>

How do you hard link a deleted file? The latest 64 bit beta flash plugin 
seems to do that with the cached file in /tmp.

> poc
>

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Suvayu

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