> But that makes no sense to me. If the OS is designed to potentially remove > running programs (or parts of it) from memory it cannot allow overwriting > the file on disk in any case. When it does so, it cannot remove parts from > memory because it may not be available on disk anymore. So it must disallow > the disk change from the beginning, otherwise it may not be able to remove > anything. >
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