From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FyR08-0004mS-K9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 06 Jul 2006 10:22:29 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k66AKlxF009443; Thu, 6 Jul 2006 10:20:47 GMT Received: from gateway4.delphi.com (gateway4.delphi.com [69.220.142.16]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k66AEb25000938 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2006 10:14:38 GMT Received: from USINKOK-MX05.NorthAmerica.DelphiAuto.net ([144.250.174.205]) by gateway4.delphi.com (MOS 3.8.0-FCS) with ESMTP id DVW22082; Thu, 6 Jul 2006 06:14:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from USINKOK-MX01.NorthAmerica.DelphiAuto.net ([144.250.174.199]) by USINKOK-MX05.NorthAmerica.DelphiAuto.net with InterScan Messaging Security Suite; Thu, 06 Jul 2006 06:14:36 -0400 Received: from [10.233.7.145] ([10.233.7.145]) by USINKOK-MX01.NorthAmerica.DelphiAuto.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Thu, 6 Jul 2006 06:14:35 -0400 Message-ID: <44ACE259.60603@mid.message-center.info> Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 12:13:45 +0200 From: Alexander Skwar User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060104 Thunderbird/1.0.7 Mnenhy/0.6.0.104 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] march in /etc/make.conf References: <20060706082214.96392.qmail@web33811.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <200607061035.30151.ext-dirk.heinrichs@nokia.com> <44ACD798.8000302@mid.message-center.info> <200607061050.56257.uwix@iway.na> In-Reply-To: <200607061050.56257.uwix@iway.na> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Jul 2006 10:14:35.0857 (UTC) FILETIME=[FB77FC10:01C6A0E4] X-Archives-Salt: 19f173b4-1cb0-4c28-a2d8-516d3ec580dd X-Archives-Hash: 0a018bfaff1cdcedea5b96a4385b7cef Uwe Thiem wrote: > 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. Well, depends on how you define "open files are overwritten". On Linux, it is like you say. But on Windows and HP-UX, you CANNOT replace a file, if it's still opened somewhere. Eg. you cannot replace /bin/sh. Instead, a new file will be created and after a reboot, the new file will be moved in place (that's how it works on HP-UX, on Windows you cannot overwrite opened files.). What I mean: On Linux, you can replace /bin/sh even if it used. You cannot overwrite the used inodes/blocks, that's absolutely correct, but that's not what I meant. Alexander Skwar -- The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be. -- Lao Tsu -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list