Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 16 May 1996 01:01:05 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Barry Lagerweij <> | Subject | Re: behavior of overwriting running executables? |
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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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