read() on a deleted file

[Alex Bligh]

--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