On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 16:42 -0800, Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Friday 12 February 2010 04:36 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > > On Friday 12 February 2010 04:07 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > >> Editors can do funny things with backup files in the interests of > >> preserving your work. An easier test would be: > >> > >> cat> foo& > >> rm foo > >> lsof +L1 -s > >> > >> When I do this the "cat" process shows up (and foo is marked as > >> deleted). You can then reconnect to "cat" (using fg) and write stuff > >> into the "non-existent" file. > > Another observation I forgot to mention, when I used fg and wrote to the > (deleted) file I could also see the size of the file increase. However > using `C-z' and fg again gave me back the orginal empty file _without_ > the edits. How do you know it doesn't have the edits if you can't open it? poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines