Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: behavior of overwriting running executables? | Date | Wed, 15 May 1996 11:53:01 PDT | From | "Marty Leisner" <> |
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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? > > > while its running, then transparently does an unlink when its done. > > ... but you cannot write to the program file before you do the remove/unlink. > > I think ld should do an unlink before it trys to write to the output file. > > Good idea...should be easy to produce a patch to ld...
-- marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Member of the League for Programming Freedom
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