Date: Sun, 05 Mar 1995 11:13:45 +0100 (MET) From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: jhay@mikom.csir.co.za (John Hay) Cc: freebsd-current@freefall.cdrom.com (user alias) Subject: Re: "Text file busy" with program not running anymore? Message-ID: <199503051013.LAA18159@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <199503050902.LAA18774@dolphin.mikom.csir.co.za> from "John Hay" at Mar 5, 95 11:02:20 am
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> > Hi, > > I am running FreeBSD-current with a kernel of this morning, if this is > relevant. I have compiled a program, copied it with cp to another directory > and executed it from there. Then I changed the source, compiled it again and > when I tried to copy it, I got the "cp: /users/jhay/bin/u2d: Text file busy" > message. But the program is not running anymore. I have waited a few minutes, > thinking that there is some cache that have to timeout, but it did not help. I can confirm this. Have seen it too when I wanted to replace an old version of Xaccel with a newer one from a tar archive. After killing the X server I still got a "text file busy" message and only got around this by deleting the binary. > > Now it isn't the end of the world for me, I can just delete the file before > I copy the new one or use install. > > I would just like to know if this is expected behaviour or not? > > -- > John Hay -- jhay@mikom.csir.co.za > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de FreeBSD blues 2.1.0-Development FreeBSD 2.1.0-Development #0: Sun Feb 26 20:27:39 1995 root@blues:/usr/src/sys/compile/BLUESGUS i386
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