Subject: Re: Panic shutting down
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG, D.K.Brownlee@city.ac.uk>
From: Captech) <greywolf@aahz.VAS.viewlogic.com (James Graham>
List: current-users
Date: 09/12/1995 09:14:42
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#: From: David Brownlee <D.K.Brownlee@city.ac.uk>
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#: Subject: Re: Panic shutting down
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#: 	Wouldn't it make sense to have the init 'make install' move an existing
#: 	init if found?
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#: 		David/abs

In regards to overwriting existing binaries which might be in use,
whatever happened to "Text file busy"?  That would catch any renegade
makefiles which might be trying to copy onto an in-use binary.  This
would be handy even in the trivial case of, say, /sbin/init :-)

				--*greywolf;

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