[Dovecot] Re: 0.99.10.5 release candidate

[Brian Candler]

On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 03:15:34PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > I don't understand that comment either. If process A has a file open, and
> > process B deletes it, the file remains (in its entirety) on the filesystem
> > until process A closes it. That's not buffer caching; that's the semantics
> > of unlink().
> 
> I think Christian was talking about NFS, it doesn't follow the
> "semantics of unlink()". Rather if a file is deleted and it's tried to
> be read later you'll get ESTALE.

Bleurgh. Thanks, I stand corrected (and see one of the reasons why NFS is
considered as nasty)

In that case, if this happens while a message is being downloaded, all the
POP3 server can do is drop the TCP connection, to prevent the client getting
a partial message.

Cheers,

Brian.