in reply to Re: Logging to a filehandle of a deleted file
in thread Logging to a filehandle of a deleted file

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.

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