Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 08:31:52 -0700 (PDT) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: "William K. Josephson" <jkw@eecs.harvard.edu> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Text file busy Message-ID: <XFMail.20030904083152.jdp@polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <20030904151223.GB65657@mero.morphisms.net>
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On 04-Sep-2003 William K. Josephson wrote: > On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 08:02:50AM -0700, Scott M. Likens wrote: >> Every single 'flavor' of Unix/Unices has always had this feature. I've > > No, just recent ones. One use to be able to page in from the wrong > binary with rather entertaining results. What's your idea of "recent"? Even Unix V6 had EBUSY. I ran into it with regularity back then. Anything with an errno value of 26 isn't what I'd call recent. :-) Even the ancient EPIPE is 32. John
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