ropers <rop...@gmail.com> writes: > 1. I think the same behaviour may be what's going on with your > so-called "ghost" files. > I.e.: Files and file descriptors get created, the files get unlinked, > but Firefox still has them open and *is still growing* them, which > continues until it actually fclose(3)s them.
Yes, this is the behavior. They are not "dot-files" or any other obscured file name, as du(1) should find those, and nothing that would account for the space is found in the output of "ls -alR /tmp" either. It does behave like the file is opened and then unlinked. Sorry for my term "ghost" file I couldn't quite find the right words for what I was seeing. Allan
