From: Uwe Thiem <uwix@iway.na>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] march in /etc/make.conf
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 10:50:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200607061050.56257.uwix@iway.na> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44ACD798.8000302@mid.message-center.info>
On 06 July 2006 10:27, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> > Yes. Open files are not overwritten,
>
> Uh? Open files *ARE* overwritten! That's Linux, not Windows or HP-UX!
No, open files are not overwritten. The new file with the same name (and path
of course) is written to disk, true, but the old file still exists and the
blocks it occupies on disk are not freed until the file is closed.
Uwe
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-05 3:07 [gentoo-user] iptables wiki james
2006-07-05 10:03 ` Daniel
2006-07-05 15:28 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2006-07-05 16:22 ` Richard Fish
2006-07-05 18:30 ` James
2006-07-05 19:55 ` Richard Fish
2006-07-05 16:32 ` Dale
2006-07-05 16:45 ` James
2006-07-05 17:27 ` Dale
2006-07-05 18:36 ` Steve Wilson
2006-07-06 1:59 ` Dale
2006-07-06 7:37 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-07-06 8:22 ` [gentoo-user] march in /etc/make.conf Pawel K
2006-07-06 8:35 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2006-07-06 9:27 ` Alexander Skwar
2006-07-06 9:46 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2006-07-06 9:50 ` Uwe Thiem [this message]
2006-07-06 10:13 ` Alexander Skwar
2006-07-21 11:51 ` Enrico Weigelt
2006-07-06 8:36 ` Janusz Bossy
2006-07-21 11:56 ` Enrico Weigelt
2006-07-06 9:26 ` Alexander Skwar
2006-07-06 10:29 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-07-11 1:03 ` [gentoo-user] Re: iptables wiki Dale
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