Hey, all. For various esoteric reasons, I'm wondering if someone can
tell me the answer to this question.
If process A is reading from a file, and process B deletes it, process
A can continue to read from it until... well, until it stops reading
from it. Can that space that the file takes up
Can that space that the file takes up be overwritten during
this interim? Or does the OS hold the inode sacrosanct until
both references AND processes are no longer making use of it?
Right - the OS's official record of a file's state is the
(in-memory copy of the) inode - the directory entries
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote:
If process A is reading from a file, and process B deletes it, process
A can continue to read from it until... well, until it stops reading
from it.
It can also seek it, write to it, etc. This condition persists
until the
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes:
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote:
If process A is reading from a file, and process B deletes it, process
A can continue to read from it until... well, until it stops reading
from it.
[...]
Can that space that the
