From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 4 08:38:23 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 8110D16A4BF for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 08:38:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blake.polstra.com (mail.polstra.com [206.213.73.132]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9345243FCB for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 08:38:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from strings.polstra.com (strings.polstra.com [206.213.73.20]) by blake.polstra.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h84FcJQO038182; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 08:38:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.4 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 08:38:19 -0700 (PDT) From: John Polstra To: current@freebsd.org X-Bogosity: No, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.499927, version=0.14.5 cc: "William K. Josephson" 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 15:38:23 -0000 On 04-Sep-2003 John Polstra wrote: > On 04-Sep-2003 William K. Josephson wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 08:02:50AM -0700, Scott M. Likens wrote: >>> Every single 'flavor' of Unix/Unices has always had this feature. I've >> >> No, just recent ones. One use to be able to page in from the wrong >> binary with rather entertaining results. > > What's your idea of "recent"? Even Unix V6 had EBUSY. Oops, I meant ETXTBSY. John