Mike Frysinger wrote:
pretty sure the linux kernel (and others?) would return ETXTBSY and not even
allow the write
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I think that's a relatively new innovation -- i.e. since
the ability to setup read-only code segments was implemented,
though FWIW, you are right.
I think it's a text editor thing --
for Example, on windows, I can't write to a running
bash-script (says it is read-only for the duration of execution.
Though I can on linux.
I suppose if bash were to mmap the script file and mark
it as "executable", it would get the same read-only protection as
binaries..??
