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

Jean-Pierre A. Radley appl at jpr.com
Wed Oct 26 15:43:01 PDT 2005


Jay R. Ashworth propounded (on Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 06:28:13PM -0400):
| On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 05:45:49PM -0400, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
| > Mark Luljak propounded (on Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 05:29:52PM -0400):
| > | Confusious (John Esak) say:
| > | > Oh, okay, I was getting the wrong impression. One of JP's messages said
| > | > something like "nothing is going to be fixed..."  I didn't see whether he
| > | 
| > | That referred to the ansi console issue which he apparently thinks is a
| > | non-issue, not the text file busy omission which he admits is an issue.
| > 
| > The 'text file busy' was never discussed during OSR 6 beta testing
| > because no one thought to try copying over a busy file.
| 
| I would be stunned if that behavior wasn't part of the SVVS testing;
| it's *not*?

Since the ETXTBSY error has not been part of Unixware for a decade or so,
why would it have to be tested?

-- 
JP


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