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> On 24 Aug 1997, Claus-Justus Heine wrote:
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> > Yeah, got that. But use the jiffies:
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> > #!/bin/sh
> > touch foo
> > ln foo fii
> > tail -f foo
> > tail -f fii
> > rm -f fii
> > rm -f foo
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> > AND NOW:
> > Using the i_ino will result in:
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> > i) "rm -f fii" will create some temp file. Ok. Nice. Should do that.
> > ii) "rm -f foo" so what? It either is a kind of no op, as the
> > ".nfs#ino" file already exists. I encountered that case: the
> > nfsd didn't do anything in this case.
> > Or it silently renames "foo" to the same ".nfs#ino" file (foo and
> > fii share the same inode).
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> Good point. "jiffies" retained,
Thanks!
Claus