On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:59:15 -0800, Darren New wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:10:55 +0000, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> 
>>> In fairness, when was the last time you tried copying a file that
>>> somebody else was still using? Not so easy, is it?
>> 
>> Trivial on Linux.
> 
> As long as you don't care about correctness. ;-)

Depends a lot on a lot of different factors.  Since you're backing up an 
inode, the inode is going to be generally valid (unless it's a special 
file of some sort), but whether it's the version that's being modified in 
memory on some computer somewhere over a network or not depends on when 
the user last saved the file.

Jim

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