From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3D611B75.60203@strakt.com> From: Boyd Roberts User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020623 Debian/1.0.0-0.woody.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Ephase question. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 18:23:17 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: de84c806-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Ronald G Minnich wrote: >I haven't seen a version of unix do this one for a while (as in decades). >The remove succeeds, the file goes away when the last reference does (but >you have to have inodes ...). > Yes, removal was fixed with BSD so you no longer got ETXTBUSY; the directory entry would disappear but the inode would persist. >But maybe there is some version of Unix >you're referencing I'm not familiar with -- there's a lot of possibilities >out there nowadays ... > However, this did not fix the over-write problem, which most/all unix' still suffer from.