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Date:      Sat, 26 Jan 2002 15:57:55 +1300
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To:        Alex Ranaldi <axr7993@rit.edu>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: unlinking open files
Message-ID:  <20020126155755.A25091@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
In-Reply-To: <0GQI0028YVW8VR@osfmail.rit.edu>; from axr7993@rit.edu on Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 08:52:58PM -0500
References:  <0GQI0028YVW8VR@osfmail.rit.edu>

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On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 08:52:58PM -0500, Alex Ranaldi wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Even killing the process 
> using the file (in this case, Apache) will not help. Only a reboot seems to 
> solve the problem.

Nope. Once you kill the last process holding the file open, the
resource is reclaimed by the O/S. You don't have to reboot - we're not
Windows.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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