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		charcircuit on Feb 15, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: When Rust hurts >Any other process could "free your pointer" (by deleting the file) at any point in time. Files are garbage collected. There is no use after free if someone deletes your file because the OS sees that you are still using it

hot_gril on Feb 15, 2023 | [–]

Yeah, common confusion to be out of free space, rm some huge file, and still be out of space because something has the file open.

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