> One nasty side-effect is space allocation -- after unlinking a file and
> writing to it, you can fill the disk without the file showing up in
> 'ls' or 'du', etc. Hard to debug. Stronghold on Solaris used to do
> this with log files -- HUP did not discard the old FDs.
Hell, syslogd on Linux used to do that ;)
Linux's /proc/PID/fd/* will (nowadays) tell you the path/name of files that
have been unlinked but have active file descriptors, which at least makes
this less painful to track down *once you think of it*.
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