On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 01:35:06PM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > Indeed! I don't know quite what I was smoking as I reviewed that piece. > In fact, I started writing this page a long time ago, but then other > events intervened, and it was a long time before I came back to it recently. > Certainly, when I produced that shell session log, things proceeded > (almost) as shown. I'm guessing that what happened is that I by > accident edited out a line > > rm cecilia.txt > > just before > > echo 'Warum?' > cecilia.txt > > Fixed now. (In that case of course, it is of course a matter of chance > whether the pathname is re-created with the same i-node number, but if > you are quick, it often is. I'll add some explanation to the page.) That's why the file handles contain a generation counter that gets incremented in this case. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
