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    • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 month ago

      Powertoys seems to be the only thing keeping windows somewhat usable, I have no idea why they don’t include it in the build.

  • Seefra 1@lemmy.zip
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    1 month ago

    “Hey Linux, can you just delete this file please?”

    “Sure thing bud, a program is using it, it’s ok, I will just unlink the inode anyway, the program can still access it until it closes the file”

      • optional@sh.itjust.works
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        1 month ago

        Yes. On Linux/Unix you don’t delete the file, you just delete it’s name, which is merely a link to the actual file. That’s also the reason why the syscalls name is actually unlink and not delete. As soon as there’s nothing pointing to a file anymore, it is deleted.

        As long as a process holds a file handle, there’s still a reference to said file, so it won’t be deleted. That saved me once, when I accidentally deleted a file I wanted to keep: As there still was some process keeping it alive, I could just go to /proc/[process id]/fd/[file descriptor id] and copy it to a safe location.

  • kuneho@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    back in the XP days, I used a software called “Unlocker” just for this problem. It probably still exists, I don’t know, because since Windows 7, the easiest way to find out what process locks a file is to open Resource Monitor (Start search: resmon) and on the CPU tab, using the “Associated handles” list, you can search for the file name and see the process in question (and kill it).

    So yeah, Resource Monitor is a useful tool on Windows.