Is it possible to forbid removal of files but allow creation of them for specific directory in Linux

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Published on 2010-06-14T04:40:56Z Indexed on 2010/06/14 4:43 UTC
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I have an application that creates temp files and quickly deletes them. But I'd like to keep those files, is there a way to do that in Linux?

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