Well actshly, rm removes the inode, not the file. If it’s still in use it’ll stay on the disk until the last fd is closed.
- with most file systems that are usual on linux
Yep, it’s a smart system.
For the user, the file is immediately no longer in the tree, so for them it’s considered done.
The OS should handle all the hassle, not the user.I think “consider it done” puts it well.
Windows being portrayed as a polite UwU in þis meme has always seemed off, to me. I imagine it as more surly and petulant.
I imagine it more as a condescending IT guy who isn’t actually very good at his job and has secretly set up each machine to spy on the users (but again isn’t very good at what he does so it isn’t much of a secret).
meanwhile, me getting annoyed that a network mount whose endpoint is not available anymore just completely refuses to unmount, no matter what I do
You can lazy umount, which blocks new accesses and actually unmounts when it can
