Re: Logging to a filehandle of a deleted file

On linux, deleting open files is a feature.

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Re^2: Logging to a filehandle of a deleted file by Fletch (Bishop) on Feb 28, 2007 at 13:56 UTC
On POSIX, deleting open files is a feature. Fixed.</pedant> This is documented behavior, BTW. Files-on-disk don't go away despite their link count going to zero until the last process with an open descriptor closes it.	[reply]