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From: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: The horrible UNLINK bug
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Date: 2 Dec 88 13:58:40 GMT
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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?  }-)
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