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From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@Informatik.BA-Stuttgart.DE>
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Subject: Re: funny ETXTBSY problem
In-Reply-To: <19980106212739.HR12419@@> from Pierre Beyssac at "Jan 6, 98 09:27:39 pm"
To: pb@fasterix.freenix.org (Pierre Beyssac)
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 23:39:56 +0100 (MET)
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> I just noticed the following problem: you can't copy over an
> executable after it has been run once since boot time.
> 
> This is fairly easy to reproduce:
> 
> $ cp /bin/sh /tmp
> $ echo echo hello there | /tmp/sh
> hello there
> $ cp /bin/sh /tmp
> cp: /tmp/sh: Text file busy
> 
> I noticed this after applying the patches John Dyson committed
> today but that's apparently not where the problem comes from, as
> this works with yesterday's kernel too... I can't say if it
> works with a kernel older than last 20 December.

With a kernel from 24 December this problem does not show up.

Wolfgang