-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/24/07 20:45, CaT wrote: > On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 08:38:54PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> However, realize that some programs create a file /tmp and then promptly >>> unlink it, thus causing the file to take up space even though it does >>> not have a directory entry. >> How's that? > > UNIX does not deallocate disk space until all opens are closed.
Sure, if there are {hard,soft} links on the file. What if it's a no-links file? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGBdZHS9HxQb37XmcRAlaOAJ9jvBhJAQwQkH+k682l7OIn8ebeTACgkix8 LwnAbXCUDAwqypENcP02vMg= =jA/r -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]