On Tue, 08 Dec 2015 08:56:49 +0200, cont...@ionelmc.ro wrote:
Not sure what exactly was going on but whenever I did that on linux I got
the most peculiar segfaults and failures. It is certainly not a safe thing
to do, even if linux lets you do it.
Are you sure you were actually unlinking the old file
and creating a new one, rather than overwriting the
existing file? The latter would certainly cause trouble
if you were able to do it.
--
Greg
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