Hello Maurice.

15 Sep 04 07:36, you wrote to Pascal Schmidt:

 MK> Hey Pascal!

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

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

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

no _everything_

/bin/rm is unlinked (ie its directory presence in /bin is removed) , but
the inode for that file and the allocated disk storage isn't freed until
the rm command and any other processes that may have /bin/rm open exits.

if you want to try it use chroot or boot a floppy.

Jasen

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