[Gllug] Root doesn't have permission

[Bruce Richardson]

On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 12:05:46PM +0000, will wrote:
> You could try lsof...  Correct me if I am wrong, but you might have 
> problems deleting the files if they are open...

There's no problem deleting files when they're open.  The actual
deletion won't happen until they are closed, is all.  A file is deleted
when it has no hard links pointing to it (that's all a filename is, a
hard link) and no processes have it open.

DOS/Windows applications, with their FAT heritage, are still fixated on
filenames but in *nix you can delete or rename/move a file while it is
being (e.g.) downloaded or played (if a music file, say) and it doesn't
make any difference to the application that has the file open.

-- 
Bruce

You can fool some of the people all the time, you can fool all of
the people some of the time but you can never fool your mother.
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