Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Deletion of big files... | Date | Wed, 19 May 1999 00:43:08 +0300 | From | Olaf Titz <> |
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> 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.
...and in this case it's the close() which hangs for seconds. Talk about confusing behaviour. :-)
Olaf
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