Re: rm-ing files with open file descriptors

Horst von Brand (brand@jupiter.cs.uni-dortmund.de)
Sat, 19 Jan 2002 16:24:31 +0100

Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> said:
> On 19 Jan 2002, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> > On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 13:16, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:

[...]

> > > cat /proc/<id>/fd/<nr> > whatever
> > > actually works.
> >
> > Once it's unliked ? I doubt it.
>
> Egads... It certainly works, unlinked or not. Please learn the basics of
> Unix filesystem semantics.

It does show up as a broken symlink for ls(1)...

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Horst von Brand			     http://counter.li.org # 22616
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