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    SubjectRe: behavior of overwriting running executables?

    On Wed, 15 May 1996, Marty Leisner wrote:

    > If I write to a running program, I get "text file busy".
    >
    > I think sunos seamlessly moves the executable to an unnamed inode, leaving a reference to
    > it while its running, then transparently does an unlink when its done.

    FYI:

    SGI's Irix allows the program to be overwritten, but causes the running
    program to core-dump !

    Barry


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