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SubjectRe: behavior of overwriting running executables?
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> > 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.
> >

I'm wrong...

> > Opinions/comments?
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> while its running, then transparently does an unlink when its done.
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> ... but you cannot write to the program file before you do the remove/unlink.
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> I think ld should do an unlink before it trys to write to the output file.
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>
Good idea...should be easy to produce a patch to ld...

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marty
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