On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:28:08PM +0200, Simo Sorce wrote: > > I can't remember just now, but can you rename it while open?
Under POSIX, yes. > If you can, then you may rename the file on unlink to a very rare name > and then delete oin close(). This is what NFS does. > > I have no idea what posix says about open and unlink, but I'm guessing if > > it's been unlinked it shouldn't prevent creating a new file (or dir). > > Maybe jeremy (our posix man :-P) can tell us this one. Yes, you can unlink whilst open and then create a new dir or file with the same name, it will occupy different disk space. Jeremy.
