[OT] Hardlinks and directories

[Suvayu Ali]

On Friday 12 February 2010 04:36 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> On Friday 12 February 2010 04:07 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> Editors can do funny things with backup files in the interests of
>> preserving your work. An easier test would be:
>>
>> cat> foo&
>> rm foo
>> lsof +L1 -s
>>
>> When I do this the "cat" process shows up (and foo is marked as
>> deleted). You can then reconnect to "cat" (using fg) and write stuff
>> into the "non-existent" file.

Another observation I forgot to mention, when I used fg and wrote to the 
(deleted) file I could also see the size of the file increase. However 
using `C-z' and fg again gave me back the orginal empty file _without_ 
the edits.
-- 
Suvayu

Open source is the future. It sets us free.