On Friday 12 February 2010 07:45 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 19:20 -0800, Suvayu Ali wrote: >>> $ fg %1 >>> cat> foo >>> testing deleted files >>> ^Z >>> [1]+ Stopped cat> foo >>> $ lsof +L1 -s >>> COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NLINK NODE NAME >>> cat 3843 jallad 1w REG 253,2 22 0 15032 /home/jallad/foo (deleted) >>> $ fg %1 >>> cat> foo >>> ^Z >>> [1]+ Stopped cat> foo > > As far as I can see, you didn't write any extra data on the second > reconnection to cat, and the size (22 bytes) hasn't changed. Why do you > think there's something wrong with this? I was expecting to see something like this on the 2nd reconnection, cat > foo testing deleted files instead of, cat > foo On some more experimentation I realised this is how `cat' behaves, it doesn't show the lines written the first time, it only shows the stdin which is perfectly reasonable. My apologies :-p > > poc > -- 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