Hi all I have a doubt regarding the behaviour of read() on an ext3 filesystem. To elucidate my doubts, I wrote a small program opens a file and reads one byte at a time and sleeps for a while. I deleted the file while the read was still in progress and I noticed that the read still succeeds. How does this work? Does the kernel not free the inode when the file is deleted but there is a pending read? To check this, instead of deleting, I tried shred-ding the file, the read still gets the correct data. My questions: - Where does the kernel get the data from? - Is this a documented feature which I can use? - Does shred write the file inode with junk? Thanks for your patience -- Keep Running.... And Relish the run... +Fasih _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
