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Date:      Wed, 7 Jan 1998 14:51:18 +1100 (EST)
From:      John Birrell <jb@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au>
To:        jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc:        pb@fasterix.freenix.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: funny ETXTBSY problem
Message-ID:  <199801070351.OAA10822@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <5665.884133396@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jan 6, 98 04:36:36 pm"

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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > 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
> 
> Interesting.  I don't see this behavior with my Dec 22nd kernel, so

At Dec 30, I have seen that. I didn't mention it because of John Dyson's
warnings. After building from the 'fixed' sources, I haven't seen the
problem. I'll go back to building the ports tree... that'll find it if
it is still a problem.

Regards,

-- 
John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@netbsd.org; jb@freebsd.org
CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137



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