Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 15 May 1999 22:52:45 +0200 (CEST) | | From | Rik van Riel <> | | Subject | Re: Deletion of big files... |
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On Fri, 14 May 1999, Jorge Gonzalez Villalonga wrote:
> I have noticed that when I delete a big file (say 800MB), with a > rm command, for example, the rm command does not return until the > file has been deleted (or so it seems).
> In other Unices, like IRIX, the rm command returns _inmediately_, no > matter the size of the file.
> Looks to me like the unlink syscall is somewhat synchronous, and it > shouldn't, or does it? For this concrete issue, it could be easily > solved by the unlink syscall starting a thread to unlink the big file,
Cosmetics.
$ rm bigfile&
will achieve exactly the same thing at no kernel cost...
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