Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 May 1999 13:11:05 -0300 | From | Rogerio Brito <> | Subject | Re: Deletion of big files... |
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On May 16 1999, Peter Svensson wrote: > This does not solve the problem for programs doing unlink(2). OTOH not > returning until the space freed is actually free has the advantage that > the space can be allocated again once the syscall returns.
I may be wrong here, but AFAIK, the space of a file is only released after the last process that has it open closes its file descriptor.
So, if more than one process has the file open, its space could not be available after the unlink.
[]s, Roger...
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