--On 3 January 2008 16:42:40 +0530 Fasihullah Askiri <fasihullah.askiri at 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