Try this:
myers@soap:~/tmp$ touch a
myers@soap:~/tmp$ link a b
myers@soap:~/tmp$ mv a b
myers@soap:~/tmp$ ls
a b
What? Why is "a" still around? Turns out rename(2) will not delete the first file in a rename if the second is linked to the same inode. AND the man page doesn't say anything.
July 4, 2004 (6 years, 2 months ago)
