Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ssbell!mcmi!denny From: denny@mcmi.UUCP (Denny Page) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: Does GNU emacs ever use shared libraries? Message-ID: <1052@mcmi.UUCP> Date: 17 May 89 20:20:38 GMT References: <152@talarian.UUCP> <39999@bbn.COM> Reply-To: denny@mcmi.UUCP (Denny Page) Distribution: usa Organization: MCMI, Omaha, NE Lines: 15 jr@bbn.com (John Robinson) writes: >Whoa. My understanding has always been that you can unlink a file, >but its inode stays around until every open FD on it is closed. You >are implying that NFS breaks this behavior? Yes, NFS breaks this behavior. Being completely stateless on the server side, it's not really optional. You can of course run an rm demon :-), or perhaps use the locking demon. Serious canal water. When they first brought up NFS, they ran into problems with this, particularly in sendmail (and csh?), if memory serves. Sendmail liked to create files, open them, and then remove them. This was fixed by hacking sendmail. -- Someday never comes