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From: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
To: Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@lina.inka.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to replace an executing file on an embedded system?
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 01:05:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050602000508.GD29811@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Ddclx-0002MM-00@calista.eckenfels.6bone.ka-ip.net>

On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 01:37:17AM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> In article <Pine.LNX.4.61.0506011828300.5925@chaos.analogic.com> you wrote:
> > What am I missing?  How am I supposed to replace files that
> > are being executed?
> 
> The problem is that a unlinked file which is open will be removed from the
> filesystem on close. I think this is not new. You can make init reexecute
> itself (telinit u)

With sysvinit you can, that is.  And no, this behaviour of umount is nothing
new, of course - wrongbot is just being its usual self.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-06-02  0:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-01 22:31 Richard B. Johnson
2005-06-01 23:37 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2005-06-02  0:05   ` Al Viro [this message]
2005-06-01 23:42 ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-06-02  0:11 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg

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