On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Scott M. Likens wrote: > On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 07:44, Paul Richards wrote: > > Overwriting a file that's currently executing results in a "Text file > > busy" error. > > > > When did this start happening? > > > > This was something that was fixed way back on FreeBSD but it seems to be > > a problem again. > > > > Paul. > > this "feature" has always existed in FreeBSD for as long as I remember. > > Of course there are ways to bypass this "feature" but it's there for > your protection. You shouldn't be upgrading a program that's in > resident memory. That's like trying to reinstall X while running in X. > You're just asking for problems. > > turnoff postfix, install the new version and be happy. > > Every single 'flavor' of Unix/Unices has always had this feature. I've > seen it on HP-UX box's on Solaris Servers, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, > FreeBSD. Maybe you wern't paying attention but, that is one of those > things I think should fall under duh, i shouldn't do that it might make > things crash hard.
It's also unfortunate that this protection does not seem to extend to libaries. I've had some in-use X libraries get overwritten with some very colorful results. -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
