On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 10:14:25PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > > Unix has a feature whereby a program can open a file, save the file handle, > and then unlink the file. Once unlinked, the file is inaccessible to most > (all?) other programs, but the originating program can still access the file > contents via the saved file handle. When the program closes the file > handle, the file contents on disk are freed. See unlink(2). > > Incidentally, That is one of my favorite sysadmin job interview scenarios. Hand the candidate a system where a process is doing just as you describe and see if he/she can identify that as the cause. It as an excellent way to assess the depth of someone's knowledge of Unix-like systems.
Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez
