Re: Vulnerability-based IPS Patent

[der Mouse <mouse () rodents montreal qc ca>]

> [...]; file opened for writing, bytes written, file closed.  You
> could argue that until the file is closed, the file isn't written to
> disk (if you look at the directory entry of a file that's interrupted
> at that point, you have a zero-byte file).

Under what OS?  Certainly under a Unix variant, the only way I can see
this happening is if (a) the file is small (under stdio's buffer size),
(b) the program writing it uses stdio to do so, and (c) by "written"
you mean "passed to stdio" rather than "flushed to the filesystem".

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