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

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From: Omry Yadan
Subject: Re: Delete a file THAT big? Surely you are joking.
Date: 09:21 on 19 Dec 2006

> This is very sweet of Unix.
Indeed.
>
> * Why is it sensible to allow to truncate a file someone has opened?
Why not?
if you want to do it, go ahead. the system is not your nanny.
> * Especially if you don't allow to remove such files?
> * Or, more specifically, you ALLOW to remove such files, but not to 
> reclaim the disk space?
> * And how am I supposed to know which process is using the file?
>
> For instance, Unix will let you overwrite a shared object used by a 
> process, and the process will crash. Isn't it *hateful*?
It does allow you to remove them.
logically the file is no longer there after you remove it. as someone 
mentioned - if there is an open file handle to that file it is not 
deleted until the process closes the file.
this is done exactly to prevent crashes.
if you really want I am sure there is a method to open a file 
exclusively, but in my opinion current behavior is far better than the 
windows behavior.
why do you think every time you install some crap windows ask for a reboot?
that IS hateful.
There's stuff above here

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