Date: Mon, 06 Feb 1995 19:16:56 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Cc: jmb@kryten.atinc.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: MIT SHM X11 extensions? (fwd) Message-ID: <199502070316.TAA00688@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 06 Feb 95 16:39:10 MST." <9502062339.AA07346@cs.weber.edu>
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>> Further, Terry's assertion that the >> binary's vnode has the VTEXT flag turned on (and thus prevents you from >> overwriting it [ETXTBUSY]) is also WRONG. It does NOT do this, and as such it >> is perfectly okay to clobber your binary. > >Oh ick. > >Uh, why is ETXTBUSY still around? To protect executing, pageable, binaries from being clobbered...which is exactly how it is used. The kernel is not a pageable binary, is not "executed" in the traditional sense. -DG
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