From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brian Dessent Subject: Re: Switching from CVS to GIT Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:37:27 -0700 Organization: My own little world... Message-ID: <4713B367.52CEC7E2@dessent.net> References: <1773C6F0-87BE-4F3C-B68A-171E1F32E242@lrde.epita.fr> <47125F74.9050600@op5.se> <47126957.1020204@op5.se> <20071014221446.GC2776@steel.home> <4712B616.165BBF8D@dessent.net> <20071015175606.GE2966@steel.home> Reply-To: git@vger.kernel.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Johannes Schindelin , git@vger.kernel.org, Eli Zaretskii , ae@op5.se, tsuna@lrde.epita.fr, make-w32@gnu.org To: Alex Riesen X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Oct 15 20:51:40 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IhUp9-00012q-KI for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:37:56 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934258AbXJOShj (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:37:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S934090AbXJOShi (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:37:38 -0400 Received: from dessent.net ([69.60.119.225]:43547 "EHLO dessent.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934177AbXJOShg (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:37:36 -0400 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=dessent.net) by dessent.net with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IhUok-0000sA-Lj; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:37:30 +0000 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,en-US Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Alex Riesen wrote: > He misunderstood. It is not what you meant. You cannot remove the open > file. What he talks about is removing the file after it is _closed_. > Junk. I did not misunderstand. The semantics are equivalent to the POSIX case: you end up with a handle to an open file that is exclusive to that process (it cannot be opened by any other process, even root) and that is automatically reclaimed by the filesystem when all open handles are closed, without any explicit action by the user. It's not "unlinking an open file", no, but it's the same result. Brian