Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Jan 2002 13:59:53 -0800 | From | J Sloan <> | Subject | Re: rm-ing files with open file descriptors |
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Normal unix behaviour -
It's always been that way....
jjs
Doug Alcorn wrote:
>I had a weird situation with my application where the user deleted all >the database files while the app was still reading and writing to the >opened file descriptor. What was weird to me was that the app didn't >complain. It just went merrily about it's business as if nothing were >wrong. Of course, after the app shut down all it's data was lost. > >Since I didn't expect this behavior I wrote a simple little program to >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? >Does POSIX define this behavior? Is it a libc issue? > >I tried to google this, but couldn't think of the right terms to >describe it. As I'm not on lkm, I would appreciate a CC: to ><doug@lathi.net>. >
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