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

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 06:43:01PM -0400, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
> | 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?

If Unixware *allows* pure-text binaries in the traditional sense, and
does *not* trap for overwriting of them, then it is irretrievably
broken.  If they can't get the coffee stains off of their tray-tables;
how the *hell* can we trust them to get engine maintenance right?

I may not have been doing commercial Unix as long as you, JP, but it's
gotta be pretty damn close; not too many distros predate Tandy 1.x,
which is where I started; I feel entitled to speak ex-cathredra there.

Cheers,
-- jra
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