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Re: Tor cleverness?



Hi,

> I renamed (with 'mv') the file I was sending Tor logs to whilst Tor was 
> running.
> I actually moved it to a different directory.
> The log data kept being written to that file. How?

unixoid OSes use file pointers which remain even when you do rm or unlink.
So mv does not change writing to an open file.

Regards,

Rolf