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Date:      Sat, 6 Jul 1996 08:46:46 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "Thomas S. Traylor" <tst@titan.cs.mci.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   How do you write to an executable (binary)?
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.3.91.960705112043.18146B-100000@titan.cs.mci.com>

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Here's what I'm trying to do:

I have a program that will prompt the user for a value.  I would like to 
write that value to the executable (binary) file.  (Using open, lseek, 
write, close)

Problem:

When I open the file I get the following error:

"Error: Text file busy".  The message number is [ETXTBSY].

I'm able to do this with other OS.  How can I get this to work with 
FreeBSD? Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Tom


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Thomas Traylor
Thomas.Traylor@mci.com
tst@titan.cs.mci.com
(719) 535-1269






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