FW: OT: broken/useless ansi - console driver??

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

John Esak propounded (on Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 11:43:53AM -0400):
| Yes, bill runs the filePro list and lots of other things on his server(s) as
| well.
| John
| 
| > -----Original Message-----
| > From: David Stauble [mailto:dave at soundideas.com]
| > Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 10:32 AM
| > To: john at valar.com
| > Subject: Re: FW: OT: broken/useless ansi - console driver??
| >
| >
| > John,
| >
| > Thanks for forwarding this but I've found it best to use two
| > steps - one to
| > compile and get all the errors out, and another to actually copy
| > the binary
| > to its "installed location" so I can run it through inetd.  The
| > simple copy
| > is now the problem (and I'll end up writing a program that checks
| > ps if they
| > don't fix it soon).

Nothing is going to be 'fixed', and you do not need to use ps.

If you want to place a new binary in place, first move the old one to a
different name, then copy in the new program.  People currently running
the old version will see no change, but subsequent calls for the program
will get the new version.

	mv /path/to/running/program /path/to/running/program.O
	cp /path/of/new/program /path/to/running/program
	rm /path/to/running/program.O

The old version is not actually unlinked until any running instance has
concluded.

-- 
JP