Re: Quasi-(un)deletion question

["s. keeling" <keeling@spots.ab.ca>]

Incoming from Martin Dickopp:
> Tim Otten <tim@cap.american.edu> writes:
> 
> > The other day, I did something really stupid. I started a download with
> > BitTorrent, and, half-way through, deleted the file it was downloading.
> 
> martin@feynman:~ > echo This is a test. > t.txt
> martin@feynman:~ > tail -f t.txt > /dev/null &       # keep file open
> [1] 1334

[snip good example]

However, that's just standard *nix filesystem behaviour.  You can rm
'til the cows come home, but as long as one symlink to the data
remains, the data remains as well.


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