File moved while being written to, write continues, how is that possible?

Wed Mar 10 06:20:05 UTC 2021

On Wed, 2021-03-10 at 06:59 +0100, Bo Berglund wrote:
> Today I accidentally moved the resulting file to another folder
> before it was completely written, about 10 minutes remained to write.
> When I realized what I had done I figured that I have lost the
> download, but strangely it continued to grow in size at the new
> location!

This is normal for Unix. It works for rad as well - if you are watching
a video, for example, you can move the file to somewhere else and the
video will continue to play...

Regards, K.

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