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

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 08:15:05PM -0400, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
> Now suppose the 'text file busy' error had never been in effect.  I
> postulate that early in one's Unix career, one would have been taught,
> right along with the lesson about 'rm *', to "Do not copy a program on
> top of one which may be in use, lest its current users see really nasty
> effects".

TTBOMK, rm -rf can't cause kernel panics, no matter which directory
you're in.

Writing atop a binary's swap source can, and likely will.

That's why they made it illegal.

If SCO was *capable* of messing this one up, they're in the Microsoft
bin, now, not that we weren't already moving all our users to SuSE...

Cheers,
-- jra
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