Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | behavior of overwriting running executables? | Date | Wed, 15 May 1996 09:02:52 PDT | From | "Marty Leisner" <> |
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This is has always been an issue with linux kernels.
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.
Opinions/comments?
marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Member of the League for Programming Freedom (http://www.lpf.org) Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic Arthur C. Clarke, The Lost Worlds of 2001
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