On 9/3/05, ace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. > 2. you say you can't see the temporary file. Neither do I, on linux. I > suspect it is not hidden using plain filesystem attributes. On linux, if > you open a file and then delete (unlink) it, you can still work with it > until you hold the file descriptor. Only when you close the file, it is > removed from disk. But as soon as you unlink it, all referrences to it > are removed from the filesystem hierarchy. Therefore, no other program > (e.g. dir, ls) except the filesystem kernel driver knows about it. You > see no file, but something is still using up disk space (if you use > programs to show free disk space). Maybe Windows supports this too.
98% correct. In linux you can still access open unlinked files from other processes if you know the process id and fileno. A link is maintained in the proc filesystem. Some consider this a security hole, others consider it a very useful feature. Bill _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
