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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!mimbres.cs.unm.edu!cs.sandia.gov!jhgreen
  2. From: jhgreen@cs.sandia.gov (Jethro H. Greene)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
  4. Subject: What happens when you remove a file being written in to?
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan12.022956.16090@cs.sandia.gov>
  6. Date: 12 Jan 93 02:29:56 GMT
  7. Article-I.D.: cs.1993Jan12.022956.16090
  8. Sender: jhgreen@cs.sandia.gov
  9. Organization: Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM
  10. Lines: 14
  11. Originator: jhgreen@cs.sandia.gov
  12.  
  13. cat > testfile &
  14. rm testfile
  15. fg
  16.  
  17.  
  18. What happens?  Is there a threat that I could write over another person's
  19. file who happens to be "dealt" that particular disk area?
  20.  
  21. Thanks in advance.
  22.  
  23. -- 
  24. Jethro H. Greene
  25. Massively Parallel Computing Research Laboratory,
  26. Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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