Re: [Mldonkey-users] problem with old temp files...

[kami petersen]

Martin wrote the following on 12/07/2003 03:14 PM :

> > and deletes the file but if a source is still sending data your os
> > will make the file reappear...
in all respect, i don't believe you. could you elaborate?

Lionel Bouton wrote:

> The OS (Unix at least) won't do this. Once unlinked the file data is 
> still allocate on disk until the last reader/writer close it but the 
> file itself won't reappear unless you link it to a directory. Somehow 
> it must be either mldonkey or Ocaml that explicitly relinks an open 
> file to the directory before the last reader or writer close it.

openbsd here. as i said, i can't remeber being bothered by this a while 
ago, like before summer or so... anyway, i know when it happens, and i 
consider it a (minor) bug in mldonkey.

cheers,
kami