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SubjectRe: behavior of overwriting running executables?
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Marty Leisner wrote:
>
>
> 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?


You can remove/unlink a running program. Then linux
seamlessly moves the executable to an unnamed inode, leaving a reference to
it 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.

/Tom
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