Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!um-math!hyc From: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: The horrible UNLINK bug Message-ID: <501@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu> Date: 2 Dec 88 13:58:40 GMT References: <109@infbsgr.infbs> Sender: usenet@math.lsa.umich.edu Reply-To: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) Organization: University of Michigan Math Dept., Ann Arbor Lines: 17 UUCP-Path: {mailrus,umix}!um-math!hyc In article <109@infbsgr.infbs> hafer@infbsgr.UUCP (Udo Hafermann) writes: >Consider the following situation: > >- A process opens and writes to a file; >- the file is deleted (unlinked); >- the process writes to the handle, which remains accessable, >- and then closes the handle. Same thing can happen on a Unix system. (Try it some time...) I s'pose we don't give Atari any credit for successfully emulating this feature of Unix though, eh? }-) -- / /_ , ,_. Howard Chu / /(_/(__ University of Michigan / Computing Center College of LS&A ' Unix Project Information Systems