OT: "Text file busy" (was Re: FW: OT: broken/useless...)

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Fairlight (Wed, 26 Oct 2005 00:39:06 -0400):
[...]
> Ironically enough, linux 2.2 (yes, that far back, and I also am
> confident from memory that this goes back far earlier--likely back
> to 1.0 or probably even 0.99 from memories of triggering it while
> upgrading things) gets it right:
>
> [cobalt] [~/bin] [12:02am]: cp ftp ftp.bak
> [cobalt] [~/bin] [12:02am]: cp gmon ftp
> cp: cannot create regular file `ftp': Text file busy
[...]

Xenix on the Tandy 6000 would give the same error, though the binary
did have to be marked "pure text" as I recall.

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