From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 6 19:52:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA02957 for current-outgoing; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 19:52:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA02553 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 19:47:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jb@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA10822; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 14:51:18 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199801070351.OAA10822@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: funny ETXTBSY problem In-Reply-To: <5665.884133396@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jan 6, 98 04:36:36 pm" To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 14:51:18 +1100 (EST) Cc: pb@fasterix.freenix.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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