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by vog 5811 days ago
> Of course you can but the open file will stay around in limbo. It wont free up space, the program that holds it open will write to the deleted file, etc.

This is actually a feature, because it makes secure temp files possible.

> I still pipe logs to a separate process that ...

Note that logging is usually done in a separate process anyway, using the Syslog facility.