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To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: rm-ing files with open file descriptors 
In-Reply-To: Message from Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> 
   of "Sat, 19 Jan 2002 07:29:33 EST." <Pine.GSO.4.21.0201190728120.3523-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> 
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 16:24:31 +0100
From: Horst von Brand <brand@jupiter.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
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Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> said:
> On 19 Jan 2002, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> > On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 13:16, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:

[...]

> > > cat /proc/<id>/fd/<nr> > whatever
> > > actually works.
> > 
> > Once it's unliked ? I doubt it.
> 
> Egads...  It certainly works, unlinked or not.  Please learn the basics of
> Unix filesystem semantics.

It does show up as a broken symlink for ls(1)...
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Horst von Brand			     http://counter.li.org # 22616
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