quasi-[OT] Adobe Flash

[Marko Vojinovic]

On Saturday, October 23, 2010 04:27:45 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 21:33 -0600, Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
> > Fortunately, Suvayu's brilliant script gets around that and manages to
> > access the file, even though it is already deleted, while Patrick's
> > suggestion of hard linking to it does not work, because it is already
> > deleted, unless he also has some ingenious trick up his sleeve to "get a
> > handle on" the deleted file.
> 
> Yes, it's a neat trick. However the 'cp' will terminate when it reaches
> the end of the input file, even if it's still being written to by the
> flash process. That would explain why the output is sometimes truncated.
> Getting round that would need a copy process that waits to see if
> there's more output, either by polling or by using inotify. IOW
> something conceptually similar to "tail -f".

Just to follow that idea, would something like

tail -f /proc/<pid>/fd/<file_id>   > /tmp/flashfile.flv

work? (Maybe with a couple more switches to tail, to start from the beginning 
of the file, etc...)

Best, :-)
Marko