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In OSX/linux/unix the application uses the inode (a system level file id basically), which is independent of the path where the file is stored. This allows to
by hrktb 12y ago
In OSX/linux/unix the application uses the inode (a system level file id basically), which is independent of the path where the file is stored.
This allows to move a file around, even trash, while applications can keep referring to it. This can be weird (if you delete a file in use, it won't be effectively deleted from disk until every application accessing it stop doing so)
- mateuszf 12y ago> This can be weird (if you delete a file in use, it won't be effectively deleted from disk until every application accessing it stop doing so) That explains why I can easily remove a running process on Linux, but it doesn't work on Windows.