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# enableOpenUnlinkEmulation

A property that allows the file system to use open-unlink emulation.

```
optional var enableOpenUnlinkEmulation: Bool { get }
```

## Discussion

*Open-unlink* functionality refers to a file system’s ability to support an open file being fully unlinked from the file system namespace.
If a file system doesn’t support this functionality, FSKit can emulate it instead; this is called “open-unlink emulation”.

Implement this property to return `true` (Swift) or `YES` (Objective-C) to allow FSKit to perform open-unlink emulation.
If you don’t implement this property at all, FSKit doesn’t perform open-unlink emulation for this volume.

FSKit reads this value after the file system replies to the `loadResource` message.
Changing the returned value during the runtime of the volume has no effect.

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