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From:	Uwe Thiem <uwix@××××.na>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] march in /etc/make.conf
Date:	Thu, 06 Jul 2006 10:04:06
Message-Id:	`200607061050.56257.uwix@iway.na`
In Reply to:	Re: [gentoo-user] march in /etc/make.conf by Alexander Skwar

1	On 06 July 2006 10:27, Alexander Skwar wrote:
2	> Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
3	> > Yes. Open files are not overwritten,
4	>
5	> Uh? Open files ARE overwritten! That's Linux, not Windows or HP-UX!
6
7	No, open files are not overwritten. The new file with the same name (and path
8	of course) is written to disk, true, but the old file still exists and the
9	blocks it occupies on disk are not freed until the file is closed.
10
11	Uwe
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Subject	Author
Re: [gentoo-user] march in /etc/make.conf	Alexander Skwar <listen@×××××××××××××××.name>