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Date:      Tue, 6 Jan 1998 21:51:50 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc:        pb@fasterix.freenix.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: funny ETXTBSY problem
Message-ID:  <199801070251.VAA02512@dyson.iquest.net>
In-Reply-To: <5665.884133396@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jan 6, 98 04:36:36 pm"

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Jordan K. Hubbard said:
> > I just noticed the following problem: you can't copy over an
> > executable after it has been run once since boot time.
> > 
> > This is fairly easy to reproduce:
> > 
> > $ cp /bin/sh /tmp
> > $ echo echo hello there | /tmp/sh
> > hello there
> > $ cp /bin/sh /tmp
> > cp: /tmp/sh: Text file busy
> 
I apparently haven't fixed this yet.  I'll see what I can do tonight.

-- 
John                  | Never try to teach a pig to sing,
dyson@freebsd.org     | it just makes you look stupid,
jdyson@nc.com         | and it irritates the pig.



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