ETXTBSY

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 07:54:50PM -0500, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
> Because of this, implementing ETXTBSY likely would require changes in
> the proc subsystem; the VM subsystem; the generic VFS/vnode code; and
> the filesystem specific code for a bunch of file system types.

"Is this file pure text?  Is it running?  Return ETXTBSY."

Confused now.

> In any case, though, it seems to me the first question to be answered
> is, "is there a strong case for restoring ETXTBSY behavior, and, if so,
> what is it?".

Absolute lack of runtime security?  Technically astute people will
finish digging your company it's grave?

Cheers,
-- jra
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