Aaaah, yet another old timer seduced by the Mac side of the force...
(It took me a month to convince my first boss that, no, on Unix, it's either there, or it's not, you can't just mark it deleted (reclaiming the space) and then change your mind later, because that's likely the first place the filesystem will write anything new... he'd been on single-user mainframes for 20 years and simply did not grok the idea of a truly multi-user system with daemons and stuff running around behind him doing stuff all the time.)
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Date: 2008-06-20 01:48 pm (UTC)Aaaah, yet another old timer seduced by the Mac side of the force...
(It took me a month to convince my first boss that, no, on Unix, it's either there, or it's not, you can't just mark it deleted (reclaiming the space) and then change your mind later, because that's likely the first place the filesystem will write anything new... he'd been on single-user mainframes for 20 years and simply did not grok the idea of a truly multi-user system with daemons and stuff running around behind him doing stuff all the time.)