On Friday 12 February 2010 04:36 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Friday 12 February 2010 04:07 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> Editors can do funny things with backup files in the interests of >> preserving your work. An easier test would be: >> >> cat> foo& >> rm foo >> lsof +L1 -s >> >> When I do this the "cat" process shows up (and foo is marked as >> deleted). You can then reconnect to "cat" (using fg) and write stuff >> into the "non-existent" file. Another observation I forgot to mention, when I used fg and wrote to the (deleted) file I could also see the size of the file increase. However using `C-z' and fg again gave me back the orginal empty file _without_ the edits. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
