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. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html