Subject: Re: Nonexistant files that take up disk space?
To: None <netbsd-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Dave Huang <khym@bga.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/27/1998 19:02:48
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Dave Huang wrote:
> What's it mean when a process (Washington University's imapd, in my

(Oops, I meant University of Washington, BTW... must've been thinking of
wuftpd :)

Thanks to everyone who replied... turns out this happens when a process
opens a file, then unlinks it before closing it... tmpfile(), et al. do
this.
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