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

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Fairlight (Mon, 24 Oct 2005 11:47:47 -0400):

> Y'all catch dis heeyah?  J. P. Radley been jivin' 'bout like:
> >
> > A further response:
> >
> >         FYI, this change goes back to System V Release 4, released
> >         in 1989.  It is a consequence of the adoption of SunOS VM
> >         architecture in SVR4 to replace the regions VM of earlier
> System
> >         V releases.
>
> Sounds like a straw man to me:
>
> [FLAdmin] [~/storage/bin] [11:25am]: cp centericq-4.20.0 testcicq
>    ... Running centericq-4.20.0 on another pty on this system ...
> [FLAdmin] [~/storage/bin] [11:26am]: cp testcicq  centericq-4.20.0
[...]
> No core dumps, no crashes, no segv's, nothing.  Just keeps on chugging.
[...]

It looks like you copied the same executable back onto itself.  (It
should have failed to copy back to centericq-4.20.0 with "text file
busy" if someone was running it.)

What happens if someone is running testcicq and then you do:

    echo hello >testcicq

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