i am also confused how the file was deleted in my situation.. i am not the one who deleted it. but i am the one who maintain the server.

thanks fooler for your response..

On 10/13/06, fooler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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From: jhuniepi
To: Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List
Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 11:08 AM
Subject: [plug] invisible files


>i have started a java program in background and redirect its stdout
>and stderr in two different files in /tmp.

># java -server ClassName > /tmp/stdout.log 2>stderr.log

>when the file is deleted, where does the java program dump its logs?

>i have a case that `df -h` is reporting 86% used of /tmp eventhough
>there is no large files there. but it is supposed that stdout.log and
>stderr.log is there. i only asumed that the two files are deleted.

>when i started the java program, it overwrites the log files so /tmp
>is now 2% used.

>can anyone provide an explanation on this?

rm is using unlink(2) system call... man 2 unlink for an explanation of your
query...

fooler.

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