On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 14:03, Carey Evans wrote: > As long as there are processes accessing a file, the file itself exists > on disk. When you "delete" it, you remove the link from the directory > to the file itself. Excellent explanation. I maintain that when people understand why the POSIX system-call to delete a file is called "unlink(2)", then they can consider themselves a reasonably knowledgeable Unix user.
-- Michael JasonSmith http://www.ldots.org/
