On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 23:05:34 +0200 (CEST), Bodo Eggert wrote: > Files are deleted if the last reference is gone. If you play a music file > and unlink it while it's playing, it won't be deleted untill the player > closes the file, since an open filehandle is a reference. BTW, I've always wondered: is there a way to un-unlink such a file? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta "I weep for our generation" -- Charlie Brown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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