Re: [Nolug] sudo rm -rf /

On 02/11/08 21:33, Curtis 'cSc' Smith wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:18:47 -0600
> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
>
>> On 02/11/08 18:40, Chris Jones wrote:
>>> I would say because it's in memory and not something that the system
>>> constantly accesses.
>> (Why do so many people using gmail always top-post? You'd think
>> they were drones who believe IE *is* the intarweb...)
>>
>> That'd be my guess. Unix doesn't "really" delete open files, so any
>> running processes and open files stay in that same state.
>>
>>> On Feb 11, 2008 5:59 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net
>>> <mailto:ron.l.johnson@cox.net>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 02/11/08 17:17, Chris Jones wrote:
>>> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWOjmvWPRvQ
>>>
>>> And we all know why the WP survived, right?
> I think the wallpaper stayed because it is cached in RAM and gnome
> hasn't told the subsystems and such to reload the image from disk. So
> until you did something that caused the image to reload, it should stay
> there, right?

That's what I'm thinking. GNOME & X are still running.

-- 
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA
PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals
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