--On 3 January 2008 16:42:40 +0530 Fasihullah Askiri <fasihullah askiri gmail com> wrote:
Thanx for the response. That is why I tried shred-ding the file. I believe that shred overwrites the file inode, if so, shred should have led to failures of read() which is not the case. How does that happen?
Buffering / caching of reads. Alex