File moved while being written to, write continues, how is that possible?
Colin Watson
cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Wed Mar 10 14:21:34 UTC 2021
On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 11:08:48AM +0000, Colin Law wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 at 09:55, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > the described behaviour follows naturally from the
> > clear separation of directory entries and open file descriptions in the
> > POSIX standard.
>
> Would it also apply on, for example, a FAT drive mounted on Ubuntu, or
> a remote file system on a Win machine?
As far as I can tell it works fine for FAT filesystems mounted on Ubuntu
(as I'd expect). I have no reliable intuition for whether it would work
on a filesystem mounted remotely from a Windows system.
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Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]
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