On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Rod Roark wrote: > Thanks Jeff, that helps. But in this case the rename deletes > a file (with the same name) that's still open (and locked), > and so the inode is going away, right? > > I suppose the OS doesn't care since it was opened read-only, > but it sure feels cheesy to me.
Try this: $ touch /tmp/file $ tail -f /tmp/file (from another tty) $ echo "hello world" >> /tmp/file (look back at the "tail -f" console and you will see "hello world") (go back to the 'echo "hello world"' tty) $ mv /tmp/file /tmp/file2 $ echo "hello world again" >> /tmp/file2 (go back to the "tail -f" tty and see "hello world again" 8-) tee hee *kinda* like when you pass call a pointer "var1" or "var2" the address that is being pointed to is the same... -ME -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS/CM$/IT$/LS$/S/O$ !d--(++) !s !a+++(-----) C++$(++++) U++++$(+$) P+$>+++ L+++$(++) E W+++$(+) N+ o K w+$>++>+++ O-@ M+$ V-$>- !PS !PE Y+ !PGP t@-(++) 5+@ X@ R- tv- b++ DI+++ D+ G--@ e+>++>++++ h(++)>+ r*>? z? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ decode: http://www.ebb.org/ungeek/ about: http://www.geekcode.com/geek.html _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
