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

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2005, Kenneth Brody wrote:
>Quoting Jean-Pierre A. Radley (Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:44:06 -0400):
>[...]
>> 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.
>
>Why rename it before removing it?  Can't you simply do:
>
>    rm /path/to/old/binary
>    cp /path/to/new/binary /path/to/old/binary

I still prefer renaming without removing the renamed file for
those occassions when the new file is broken (on rare occassions
I do create executables with bugs :-).  That allows one to
restore the old version if necessary.

Bill
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