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   kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2023 07:01:46 JST kaia
   I learned that if in Linux you are in a folder /tmp/test and remove that folder from elsewhere, recreate the folder, but your terminal is still in /tmp/test, you will not see the files in the folder, since the old and new folders are not the same.
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     hackbyte (hackbyte@friendica.utzer.de)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2023 07:03:41 JST hackbyte

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     @kaia man directory/filehandles.. ;)
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     😶‍🌫️ (engler@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2023 14:54:39 JST 😶‍🌫️

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     @kaia Could be because of tmpfs(5) but I am not sure.

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     grillchen (grillchen@brotka.st)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2023 14:54:40 JST grillchen

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     @engler @kaia nah it is inodes.
     
     internally the path is just an abstraction layer to make it human readable and for scripts and co to know where to go. but the actual folders are not identical
     
     works also in /home
     Terminal A:
     cd /home/user/removeme
     /home/user/removeme/testfile
     
     
     Terminal B:
     other terminal
     rm -r /home/user/removeme
     mkdir /home/user/removeme
     touch /home/user/removeme/testfile
     
     
     Terminal A:
     
     ls
     
     will return nothing.
     first the content got deleted but the terminal A is still in the first folders inodes.
     though a simple "cd ." will load the new content of the path
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