On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 11:21:40AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > hendrik writes: > > I thought that a deleted file that was still being read *was* unlinked > > from the directory, just not removed from the disk until it was closed. > > The directory entry is deleted and the link count is decremented when the > file is deleted from the directory. When the file was opened the link > count was incremented, so this does not bring it to zero. When the file is > closed the link count is decremented. If this brings the link count to > zero the file is deleted. > -- > John Hasler > Thanks. That was what I thought happened.
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