On Sunday 09 June 2013 16:59:15 Linda Walsh wrote: > jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > > All I know is there I am in emacs seeing things in the output of a > > running bash script that I want to tweak and get busy tweaking and saving > > changes before the script finishes, thinking that all this stuff will be > > effective on the next run of it, when lo and behold now it begins > > executing random bytes... Yes one can say that these are not C programs > > ---- > If they were C programs, and you were to edit binary in place, while it was > executing, using memory-mapped I/O, the machine might very well start > executing garbage and your C program would dump core or similar.
pretty sure the linux kernel (and others?) would return ETXTBSY and not even allow the write -mike
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