Messages in this thread |  | | From | Herbert Rosmanith <> | Subject | Re: behavior of overwriting running executables? | Date | Thu, 16 May 1996 03:40:11 +0200 (MET DST) |
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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. > > SGI's Irix allows the program to be overwritten, but causes the running > program to core-dump !
fyi,
with linux, I noticed that you always can do "rm <orig.program>; cp <your.program> <orig.progam>" and never see any crashes.
/herp
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