Charles wrote:
In the OP's case, references to the directory have been removed from the
file
system, but his process still has the current working directory reference to
it,
so it has not actually been deleted. When he opens ../abc.txt, the OS
searches
the current directory for .. and finds
Gregory Ewing greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz wrote in message
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Charles wrote:
In the OP's case, references to the directory have been removed
from the file system, but his process still has the current working
directory reference to it, so it has not
On Tue, 04 May 2010 23:02:29 +1000, Charles wrote:
I am by no means an expert in this area, but what I think happens (and I
may well be wrong) is that the directory is deleted on the file system.
The link from the parent is removed, and the parent's link count is
decremented, as you observed,
On 04/05/10 03:25, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2010-05-04, Charlesc.sand...@deletethis.bom.gov.au wrote:
I don't see how it's inelegant at all. Perhaps it's
counter-intuitive if you don't understand how a Unix filesystem
works, but the underlying filesystem model is very simple, regular,
and
Grant Edwards inva...@invalid.invalid wrote in message
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On 2010-05-03, Chris Rebert c...@rebertia.com wrote:
open(path) - IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
i think that if the first of these seemingly impossible requests
fails, it
is
On 2010-05-04, Charles c.sand...@deletethis.bom.gov.au wrote:
I don't see how it's inelegant at all. Perhaps it's
counter-intuitive if you don't understand how a Unix filesystem
works, but the underlying filesystem model is very simple, regular,
and elegant.
but probably makes some bit of
Grant Edwards wrote:
I guess I've been using Unix for too long (almost 30 years). I don't
think I was consciously aware of a one file, one name paradigm. Is
that a characteristic of Dos, Windows or Mac filesystems?
Older and simpler filesystems used to combine the naming with the space
