In article <[email protected]>,
 Chris Angelico <[email protected]> wrote:

> I love how Unix will happily let you unlink a file and keep using it.
> Sure, it's a pitfall for people who are trying to figure out where on
> earth their disk space has gone ("I deleted that huge file, but my
> disk's still full!!"), but it's soooooo much easier to work with than
> "File in use, cannot delete".

It's a common way to deal with temp file cleanup.
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