On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 03:18:05PM -0500, Ron Peterson wrote: > Debian FAQ item 7.2 says that "The kernel (filesystem) in Debian > GNU/Linux systems supports replacing files even while they're being > used." > > How is this accomplished? If I roll my own kernel, do I need to patch > it first to support this functionality? Are there any other > Debian-specific kernel patches to be aware of?
No. It's Normal Behavior from *nix There's no special magic, other than the care taken by installers to do things correctly. -- CueCat decoder .signature by Larry Wall: #!/usr/bin/perl -n printf "Serial: %s Type: %s Code: %s\n", map { tr/a-zA-Z0-9+-/ -_/; $_ = unpack 'u', chr(32 + length()*3/4) . $_; s/\0+$//; $_ ^= "C" x length; } /\.([^.]+)/g;