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.
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