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To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
cc: jmb@kryten.atinc.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: MIT SHM X11 extensions? (fwd) 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Mon, 06 Feb 1995 19:16:56 -0800
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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