From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 4 07:47:50 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D54316A4BF for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 07:47:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from axl.seasidesoftware.co.za (axl.seasidesoftware.co.za [196.31.7.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 106B943FAF for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 07:47:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheldonh@starjuice.net) Received: from sheldonh by axl.seasidesoftware.co.za with local (Exim 4.22) id 19uvOY-0001UD-Qr; Thu, 04 Sep 2003 16:47:34 +0200 Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 16:47:34 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: Paul Richards Message-ID: <20030904144734.GS6967@starjuice.net> Mail-Followup-To: Paul Richards , current@freebsd.org References: <1062686653.67807.77.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1062686653.67807.77.camel@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: Sheldon Hearn cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Text file busy X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 14:47:50 -0000 On (2003/09/04 14:44), 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. Really? I've never seen it "fixed". I've occasionally hit this problem upgrading perl and exim for as long as I can remember. Ciao, Sheldon. -- http://starjuice.net/