Re: [DNG] [OT] files disappearing reproducibly

2022-02-20 Thread marc
> Back to the keyboard, I just discovered, that every (GUI) program I > run, is spawned from PID 1. Honestly, I would have expected those to be > child processes of e.g. the display manager or the session manager... That isn't how it starts off, chances are that when you run a program it is

Re: [DNG] [OT] files disappearing reproducibly

2022-02-20 Thread Steve Litt
Florian Zieboll via Dng said on Sat, 19 Feb 2022 18:51:54 +0100 >Back to the keyboard, I just discovered, that every (GUI) program I >run, is spawned from PID 1. This is not precisely true. Even though ps ax lists the PPID of the programs you run is 1, PID1 didn't spawn them. Here's the

[DNG] basic Linux resources

2022-02-20 Thread Florian Zieboll via Dng
On Sun, 20 Feb 2022 13:11:36 + Antony Stone wrote: > On Sunday 20 February 2022 at 12:57:07, Florian Zieboll via Dng wrote: > > > Dear list, > > > > I just want to share the two most important things I learned > > yesterday: > > > > 1.) I can "delete" files for which I do not have write

Re: [DNG] "post mortem" (was: Popcorn)

2022-02-20 Thread Antony Stone
On Sunday 20 February 2022 at 12:57:07, Florian Zieboll via Dng wrote: > Dear list, > > I just want to share the two most important things I learned yesterday: > > 1.) I can "delete" files for which I do not have write permissions, if > the containing directory is writable by me: Indeed -

[DNG] "post mortem" (was: Popcorn)

2022-02-20 Thread Florian Zieboll via Dng
Dear list, I just want to share the two most important things I learned yesterday: 1.) I can "delete" files for which I do not have write permissions, if the containing directory is writable by me: || The system deletes files automatically when their reference || counts drops to