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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Virtual file or memory? Post 302443064 by guruprasadpr on Friday 6th of August 2010 01:10:30 PM
Old 08-06-2010
Virtual file or memory?

Hi Experts
I encountered a situation recently. I wanted to discuss here and understand the reason behind this. My scenario is something like this:

Code:
yes > temp  &

The above command keeps writing the output to the file temp. And this file keeps growing every second. And in the every passing second, the file system is slowly getting full. Now a user, user1, unknowingly deletes this file temp.
Code:
rm temp

Now user2 logs in, and realizes file system is getting full. He searches for all the big files and deletes them, still over a period of time, its getting full because the earlier process is still alive .

I have 2 questions.

1. The moment i kill the process "yes > temp", my file system size comes back to normal(in my actual case from 100 to 27) which makes me understand the process was writing somewhere. Once it got killed, the space got freed. Where was it writing at since the temp file does not exist?

2. The user1 having deleted the file temp, is there any way in which I can associate a file to the process now?


Please advice.

Guru.
 

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maxdb_rollback - Rolls back current transaction

       Procedural style

SYNOPSIS
bool maxdb_rollback (resource $link) DESCRIPTION
Object oriented style bool maxdb::rollback (void ) Rollbacks the current transaction for the database specified by the $link parameter. RETURN VALUES
Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure. EXAMPLES
Example #1 Object oriented style <?php $maxdb = new maxdb("localhost", "MONA", "RED", "DEMODB"); /* check connection */ if (maxdb_connect_errno()) { printf("Connect failed: %s ", maxdb_connect_error()); exit(); } /* disable autocommit */ $maxdb->autocommit(FALSE); $maxdb->query("CREATE TABLE temp.mycity LIKE hotel.city"); $maxdb->query("INSERT INTO temp.mycity SELECT * FROM hotel.city"); /* commit insert */ $maxdb->commit(); /* delete all rows */ $maxdb->query("DELETE FROM temp.mycity"); if ($result = $maxdb->query("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM temp.mycity")) { $row = $result->fetch_row(); printf("%d rows in table mycity. ", $row[0]); /* Free result */ $result->close(); } /* Rollback */ $maxdb->rollback(); if ($result = $maxdb->query("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM temp.mycity")) { $row = $result->fetch_row(); printf("%d rows in table mycity (after rollback). ", $row[0]); /* Free result */ $result->close(); } /* Drop table myCity */ $maxdb->query("DROP TABLE temp.mycity"); $maxdb->close(); ?> Example #2 Procedural style <?php $link = maxdb_connect("localhost", "MONA", "RED", "DEMODB"); /* check connection */ if (maxdb_connect_errno()) { printf("Connect failed: %s ", maxdb_connect_error()); exit(); } /* disable autocommit */ maxdb_autocommit($link, FALSE); maxdb_query($link, "CREATE TABLE temp.mycity LIKE hotel.city"); maxdb_query($link, "INSERT INTO temp.mycity SELECT * FROM hotel.city"); /* commit insert */ maxdb_commit($link); /* delete all rows */ maxdb_query($link, "DELETE FROM temp.mycity"); if ($result = maxdb_query($link, "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM temp.mycity")) { $row = maxdb_fetch_row($result); printf("%d rows in table mycity. ", $row[0]); /* Free result */ maxdb_free_result($result); } /* Rollback */ maxdb_rollback($link); if ($result = maxdb_query($link, "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM temp.mycity")) { $row = maxdb_fetch_row($result); printf("%d rows in table mycity (after rollback). ", $row[0]); /* Free result */ maxdb_free_result($result); } /* Drop table myCity */ maxdb_query($link, "DROP TABLE temp.mycity"); maxdb_close($link); ?> The above example will output something similar to: 0 rows in table mycity. 25 rows in table mycity (after rollback). SEE ALSO
maxdb_commit(3), maxdb_autocommit(3). PHP Documentation Group MAXDB_ROLLBACK(3)
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