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SubjectRe: rm-ing files with open file descriptors
FromXavier Bestel <>
Date18 Jan 2002 22:27:01 +0100
On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 22:11, Doug Alcorn wrote:
> test it[1].  Sure enough, you can rm a file that has opened file
> descriptors and no errors are generated.  Interestingly, sun solaris
> does the same thing.  Since this is the case, I thought this might be
> a feature instead of a bug (ms-win doesn't allow the rm).  So, my
> question is where is this behavior defined?  Is it a kernel issue?

It is defined, and even sometimes used to allocate temporary disk space
(open a file, rm it, you can still r/w your file descriptor and all will
return to free space once your app closes the fd or dies).

	Xav

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