Re: Create NSStrings from a mapped NSData object - safe?

FROM : Dennis Munsie
DATE : Thu May 15 18:42:30 2008

It doesn't move the file -- it removes the entry for it in the
directory.  Once the reference count for it go to 0, then it gets
"removed" from the filesystem -- i.e, it's space on the filesystem
gets marked as being available.

dennis

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Jean-Daniel Dupas
<<email_removed>> wrote:
> At least on HFS+ volume, if one process uses a file, rm does not remove it
> but move it somewhere nobody can find it until it is no longer used (there
> is some folder that cannot be access using path on HFS volumes). Then it is
> deleted.