On 2/8/16 11:34 AM, Linda Walsh wrote: >> Why would that be more reasonable than anything else? It references a >> path that doesn't exist. >> >> > Um...Not exactly. As long as there's a handle open to the previous path, > it still exists (at least on linux and unix).
The actual filesystem objects still exist, but the named references to them (pathnames) do not. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/