Tor cleverness?

dr._no at cool.ms dr._no at cool.ms
Mon Nov 17 19:36:56 UTC 2008


Hi,

> I renamed (with 'mv') the file I was sending Tor logs to whilst Tor was 
> running.
> I actually moved it to a different directory.
> The log data kept being written to that file. How?

unixoid OSes use file pointers which remain even when you do rm or unlink.
So mv does not change writing to an open file.

Regards,

Rolf



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