From: Sean Neakums <sneakums@zork.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Everything gone!
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 08:57:08 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6uisuefmaj.fsf@zork.zork.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0303191158180.31905@chaos> ("Richard B. Johnson"'s message of "Wed, 19 Mar 2003 12:01:37 -0500 (EST)")
commence Richard B. Johnson quotation:
> I think that, with a single instance of `rm`, not as written above,
> this would complete because all the open runtime libraries would
> remain mem-mapped until the last close. So, I think you could
> remove everything with -rf except the programs that will return
> 'text file busy' errors because they are open for execution.
Linux allows files that are being executing to be unlinked. You will
get ETXTBUSY if you open the file and try to modify it, though.
--
Sean Neakums - <sneakums@zork.net>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-20 8:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-19 15:46 Richard B. Johnson
2003-03-19 16:02 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-03-19 17:33 ` John Jasen
2003-03-19 17:50 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-03-19 17:55 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-03-19 18:12 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-03-20 2:04 ` Joshua Kwan
2003-03-19 21:18 ` James H. Cloos Jr.
2003-03-19 16:04 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2003-03-19 16:21 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-03-19 16:37 ` Xavier Bestel
2003-03-19 16:51 ` Eli Carter
2003-03-19 17:12 ` Xavier Bestel
2003-03-19 17:01 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-03-19 18:23 ` Eric Weigle
2003-03-19 18:32 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2003-03-20 8:57 ` Sean Neakums [this message]
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