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to: Pascal Schmidt
from: Maurice Kinal
date: 2004-09-15 07:36:50
subject: Re: FONTS

Hey Pascal!

Sep 15 15:46 04, Pascal Schmidt wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 PS> Nope. The kernel has a reference to the file, which means the inode 
 PS> only gets freed once the program stops running. The "rm /bin/rm" 
 PS> before only frees the directory entry.

So then "rm -r /" will successfully delete everything except rm? 
Not that I plan on verifying this, just curious.

Life is good,
Maurice

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