Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > The upshot is that if a process has a file open, and that file is > replaced by a different one (using unlink and creat) then the process > will continue to use the old file and all its attributes. When the > process closes the file, or terminates, the reference disappears and the > system then recovers the space.
I make use of this when I save youtube movies. Flash deletes the file as soon as it is downloaded, but as long as the flash/nspluginwrapper processes are still running, the deleted file can be captured and copied to another location. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
