Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!mks!rand
From: rand@mks.UUCP (Randall Howard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: unlink safe before close?
Keywords: unlink before close
Message-ID: <910@mks.UUCP>
Date: 8 May 89 20:14:00 GMT
References: <755@unify.UUCP> <1989May7.053222.21348@utfyzx.uucp>
Reply-To: rand@mks.UUCP (Randall Howard)
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Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Of course any SVID/POSIX compliant system where unlink before close
is dangerous is just plain buggy.  However, in the real world, systems
like MS-DOS and OS/2 corrupt the file system or give errors, respectively
in this case.  As a result, and in the interests of maximal portability
it is always a good idea to close files before unlinking.

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