From owner-freebsd-hackers  Thu Feb  9 13:06:03 1995
Return-Path: hackers-owner
Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id NAA17822 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 9 Feb 1995 13:06:03 -0800
Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA17815 for <hackers@FreeBSD.org>; Thu, 9 Feb 1995 13:05:58 -0800
Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1)
	id AA07346; Mon, 6 Feb 95 16:39:11 MST
From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
Message-Id: <9502062339.AA07346@cs.weber.edu>
Subject: Re: MIT SHM X11 extensions? (fwd)
To: davidg@Root.COM
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 95 16:39:10 MST
Cc: jmb@kryten.atinc.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org
In-Reply-To: <199502062301.PAA00617@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Feb 6, 95 03:01:27 pm
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52]
Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

> 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?


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
---
Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.