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Re: Sometiomes I really LOVE linux.

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On 24/09/2018 17.27, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> On 2018-09-24, Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 9/24/18 1:14 PM, Robert Heller wrote:
>>
>>> At Mon, 24 Sep 2018 19:29:43 +0100 The Natural Philosopher
>>> <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am you see tidying up my video collection by using handbrake to trim
>>>> the videos to their actual size rather than the form thay came in,
>>>> suuround by 'black space'  And crop off station ids where they are on
>>>> recirded materail but 'off screen'
>>>>
>>>> So I set up a batch in Handbrake, then went and did something else, then
>>>> started deleting all the converted files - files that had .mp4
>>>> extensions and also .m4v extensions.
>>>>
>>>> Then I realised I had just deleted the source file of the movie
>>>> currently being converted.
>>>>
>>>> Handbrake, which had the file open, didnt even blink.
>>>>
>>>> Linux of course wont ACTUALLY delete the file until is is closed by all
>>>> accessing it..
>>>
>>> Linux never really (actually) deletes files. "rm" just "unlinks" them
>>> (removes the *directory entry*) (the kernel call is "unlink", there is
>>> no "delete" kernel call). The inodes don't get moved to the free list
>>> until both of these states are true:
>>>
>>> There are no directory entries pointing at the inodes.
>>>
>>> There are no open files pointing at the inodes.
>>>
>>>> A fundamental safeguard on an OS derived from multiuser Unix...
>>>
>>> Just the right thing to do.
>>>
>> 	Only sometimes? I like Linux about 8 days a week.
> 
> Which is about how much I hate Windows - especially its damned file system,
> including its obsession with exclusive file locks.
> 
> One of the most FA'd of Qs in Windows discussion groups is:
> "How do I update the executable file for a running program?"
> This is met by a flood of answers describing increasingly
> convoluted hacks - usually involving at least one reboot -
> culminating in the conclusion: "You can't."  Under Linux
> it's trivial.

Well, you can't because Windows by design removes from RAM code sections
of a program that are not used at the moment, and loads them from the
file.exe again when needed. If the exe file gets changed, the
application would crash.

Windows thus impedes replacing an exe that is running, obviously. It
would be a bad thing in Windows to change the file.

Simply different design, not better nor worse. Different, with different
set of pros and againsts.


Say... but the program could maintain a pointer to the old file and use
it, while the disk lists a new version. Yes... but then instances of the
programs loaded at different instants would behave differently, possibly
causing strange errors. Beside requiring a different filesystem design.

So, no :-)

-- 
Cheers,
       Carlos E.R.

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Sometiomes I really LOVE linux. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2018-09-24 19:29 +0100
  Re: Sometiomes I really LOVE linux. Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2018-09-24 15:14 -0500
    Re: Sometiomes I really LOVE linux. Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2018-09-24 14:01 -0700
      Re: Sometiomes I really LOVE linux. Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2018-09-24 21:27 +0000
        Re: Sometiomes I really LOVE linux. "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-09-24 22:49 -0400
          Re: Sometiomes I really LOVE linux. Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2018-09-25 09:08 +0100
          Re: Sometiomes I really LOVE linux. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2018-09-25 11:51 +0000
            Re: Sometiomes I really LOVE linux. Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2018-09-25 14:45 +0100
              Re: Sometiomes I really LOVE linux. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2018-09-25 20:22 +0000
                Re: Sometiomes I really LOVE linux. Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2018-09-26 08:32 +0100
          Re: Sometiomes I really LOVE linux. Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2018-09-25 08:34 -0500
            Re: Sometiomes I really LOVE linux. Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2018-09-25 15:28 +0000
              Re: Sometiomes I really LOVE linux. Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2018-09-25 11:21 -0500
                Re: Sometiomes I really LOVE linux. Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2018-09-25 21:26 +0000
                Re: Sometiomes I really LOVE linux. Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2018-09-25 19:06 -0500
              Re: Sometiomes I really LOVE linux. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2018-09-25 20:33 +0000
                Re: Sometiomes I really LOVE linux. Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2018-09-25 23:41 +0000
                Re: Sometiomes I really LOVE linux. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2018-09-26 00:51 +0000
  Re: Sometiomes I really LOVE linux. jrg <jeff.g.group@att.net> - 2018-09-24 14:33 -0700
    Re: Sometiomes I really LOVE linux. Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2018-09-24 21:59 +0000

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