Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 11:02:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 11:02:41 -0500 Received: from tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.34]:11499 "EHLO tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 11:02:30 -0500 Message-ID: <3C0E4487.6000704@savoirfairelinux.com> Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 11:00:07 -0500 From: Cyrille Beraud User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2.1) Gecko/20010901 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Removing an executable while it runs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, I would like to remove an executable from the file-system while it is running and get all the blocks back immediately, not after the end of the program. Is this possible ? From what I understand, the inode is not released until the program ends. Do all the file-systems behave the same way ? Thank you for your help. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/