On 10-07-13 01:58 AM, John W. Krahn wrote:
Harinatha Reddy M wrote:
And what if the file is being accessed by some process. Can we delete it?
Probably not on Windows, probably yes on Unix/Linux.
On Linux, the contents of the file will be kept until all processes that
have it open, closes it. This means that if you delete files hoping to
free up some disk space, you may not get it right away.
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Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth,
Shawn
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