On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 11:12 AM Rich Pieri <[email protected]> wrote: > > Something along these lines should work on probably any UNIX or > UNIX-like system. Unlinking a file removes the directory entry but the > storage blocks are not released for reuse until all file handles are > closed. This ends up being more of an annoyance than a benefit when > long-running jobs put big files on scratch storage which is > periodically pruned.
But not all UNIX-like systems have a /proc/PID/fd directory that makes it easy to access the contents of such an unlinked file. I don't know if the *BSDs do or not. Bill Bogstad _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
