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What is an anonymous inode in Linux?

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What is A_inode?

An inode is a file data structure that stores information about any Linux file except its name and data.

What is Epoll in Linux?

epoll is a Linux kernel system call for a scalable I/O event notification mechanism, first introduced in version 2.5. 44 of the Linux kernel. Its function is to monitor multiple file descriptors to see whether I/O is possible on any of them.


I made a google search about "anonymous inode" and it seems it's related to epoll ... but what actually is it?