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

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 09:24:22AM -0400, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> 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.

Correct: any system which *permits* the marking of binaries as
pure-text (the implication of which is that they're not swapped out;
the system reloads needed pages from the filesystem) must protect such
files, for oblivious raisins.

Cheers,
-- jra
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