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Re: GSOC 2012 project clarification



> The deletion is generally not at the time of "unlink".  It happens
> when the file isn't referenced by anything anymore.

Yeah, but in most cases isn't that at unlink time?  File destruction
_can_ be delayed well beyond the "no names refer to it" point, but at
least in my experience that is very much more the exception than the
rule.

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