OT: SCO 6.0 - MAJOR BUG!!!!!

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Jean-Pierre A. Radley propounded (on Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 07:26:33PM -0400):
| John Esak propounded (on Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 06:14:36PM -0400):
| | Here is the old scenario. Imagine you are *running* rclerk. As the root user
| | you go to some other session and try and do:
| | 
| |     cp /tmp/fred /u/appl/fp/rclerk
| | 
| | You will get a message something like cP can't do this for you because the
| | text file is busy... etc., etc. This is fine and I think it should work this
| | way.  On the new 6.0, if you do the very same thing (and imagine /tmp/fred
| | to be a 6 byte file that holds the word "hello") what will happen is exactly
| | this. You get back your prompt as if the /tmp/fred file *has* been copied
| | over the top of the *running* rclerk file.  You know why? BECAUSE IT
| | HAS!!!!!
| | 
| | The very next keystroke from the person who is *running* the rclerk
| | generates a core dump!  This happens with any program and copying over it,
| | etc. It is just unbelievable. If there were 20 people running rclerk, 20
| | people each get core dumps on their next keystroke. This is just simply
| | stupid, and in my opinion is a severe bug in the way things work.
| | 
| | Okay, I'm ready to be told why this is some kind of a good idea and not a
| | pure giant bug.
| 
| It's a major bug, and I've posted your report to the people who can fix it.

The first answer I got is that is the usual behavior in Unixware.

That leaves open the question of whether it is or is not a bug.

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JP