Re: [Fwd: Re: Delete a file THAT big? Surely you are joking.]

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> Which is so obviously totally inferior to removing the name of the file
> from the directory but leaving the file to fill up the disk.

Absolutely, because 99.44% of the time the program will be gone within
seconds anyway, and of the remaining 0.56% of the time 99.4% of the time
the program isn't creating a large file and leaving the file NAME in place
just serves to make the program fail to start because the old hung copy
you can't kill without rebooting because of an interaction with hateful.dll
that would crash the system anyway has the file open...

Seriously. The situation where you have a long running program holding a
large file open AND you're short on disk space is the rare case. Optimizing
for the rare case is hateful.

• [Fwd: Re: Delete a file THAT big? Surely you are joking.] Jonathan Stowe 20:00 on 18 Dec 2006
  • Re: [Fwd: Re: Delete a file THAT big? Surely you are joking.] Nicholas Clark 20:04 on 18 Dec 2006
  • peter (Peter da Silva) 20:20 on 18 Dec 2006
  • Bruce Richardson 02:36 on 20 Dec 2006

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