On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:07:45 -0200, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> I don't believe that would matter, again, it's the inode that's open,
>> and when the file is overwritten a new inode is created and the old one
>> is destroyed.
> 
> Uh, it's not. Depends on your definition of "overwritten".
> 
> Open an existing file (inode), write into it. Did the inode change?

That's not the situation we're talking about - we're talking about 
replacing something like a shared library - I've *never* seen shared 
libraries updated by opening them and writing a change into them, then 
saving them out again.

Jim

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