"text file busy" (was RE: FW: OT: broken/useless ansi...)

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting John Esak (Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:33:00 -0400):
[...]
> I am the one who thinks it is wrong/stupid behavior. The only thing
> that should happen when you try writing to a running binary is: you
> get an error.

You're not the only one who thinks this is "wrong".  I certainly do,
and I believe that JP does as well.  (See the quote below.)

I think this topic has drifted to "it's not a SCO bug, as this is the
long-standing behavior of Sun and other platforms", and "here are ways
to work around this new (for OpenServer) behavior".

So, basically, "it's not a bug", but it's also a very strange design
decision.

[... Quoting Jean-Pierre A. Radley ...]
> > Ken Brody propounded (on Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 12:58:33PM -0400):
[...]
> > | Though I still don't understand allowing writes to an executing
> > | binary rather than giving the "text file busy" error.
> >
> > I don't either.

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