Lennart Poettering
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This call creates an fd from another fd containing the same data. Specifically, repeated read() on the returned fd should return the same data as the original fd. This call is useful when we want to copy data out of disk images and suchlike, and want to be pass fds with the data around without having to keep the disk image continously mounted. The implementation tries to be somewhat smart and tries to prefer memfds/pipes over files in /tmp or /var/tmp based on the size of the data, but has appropropriate fallbacks in place.
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