Paul Richards wrote: > Overwriting a file that's currently executing results in a "Text file > busy" error. > > When did this start happening? > > This was something that was fixed way back on FreeBSD but it seems to be > a problem again.
You are opening an existing file for write. You need to rename on top of it, or delete and create a new one, and this will not happen. The issue is that the pages in the executing file are not necessarily all in core, so it can't copy-on-write them, since it doesn't know that they are being dirtied. The copy-on-write behaviour is relatively new; old System V and Xenix system did not permit even deleting an executing file, since the process did not hold an open file reference on the file. -- Terry _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
