Moving open files

[Marcin ‘Qrczak’ Kowalczyk]

2008/7/8 Leo Cacciari <leo.cacciari at gmail.com>:

> AFAIK, in
> the actual implementation, if you have a mandatory lock on a file an the
> process having set it crashes without removing it, the file will be
> _inaccessible_ to _all_ (even root), unless you reboot the system.

I believe this is false. A lock is associated with a process. When the
process finishes or crashes, the lock is removed.

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Marcin Kowalczyk
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