Re: Text file busy

From: John Polstra <jdp_at_polstra.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 08:31:52 -0700 (PDT)
On 04-Sep-2003 William K. Josephson wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 08:02:50AM -0700, Scott M. Likens wrote:
>> Every single 'flavor' of Unix/Unices has always had this feature.  I've
> 
> No, just recent ones.  One use to be able to page in from the wrong
> binary with rather entertaining results.

What's your idea of "recent"?  Even Unix V6 had EBUSY.  I ran
into it with regularity back then.

Anything with an errno value of 26 isn't what I'd call recent. :-)
Even the ancient EPIPE is 32.

John
Received on Thu Sep 04 2003 - 06:31:58 UTC

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