greywolf@defender.vas.viewlogic.com writes:
 > If the kernel were to keep track of something happening to init (perhaps
 > a "halt" should cause init to simply exit with status of 0?), once init
 > were to exit normally the kernel could then do the cleanup of that par-
 > ticular inode and do a few minor consistency checks before giving up the
 > ghost and going back to the monitor or the "Press any key to reboot..."
 > message.

	How about simply changing the semantics of install so that,
when it copies a file, it first unlinks the existing file? I have been
bitten a few times when installing software over a version that is in
use (SunOS, if that matters).

	//Raymond.