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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Add new slice to running system, comments?
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In-Reply-To: <199601082117.NAA01757@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Jan 8, 96 01:17:46 pm
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> >Shouldn't this (well, loose meaning of "should" in this case, since I don't
> >agree with half of the VEXEC crap) result in an EBUSY?
> 
>    No. VEXEC only means that you can't write to it. Doing an rm just marks the
> file for delete since it is still open by something else. This is the desired
> behavior.

I was thinking in terms of create strategy for dnodes.  This is very
specific to the MSDOSFS itself.  What you say is generally true.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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