In <listserv%201005240750423059.0...@bama.ua.edu>, on 05/24/2010
   at 07:50 AM, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> said:

>The old name goes away immediately, even if someone else is using the
>file arbitrarily long.

To be more precise, a program that opened the old name will continue
using the old inode instead of the inode for the next file created
with the old name. Sometimes that's the behavior that you want, but
not always.
 
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     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
     ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> 
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