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Re: overwriting an in-use executable


2009/12/13 Christian Franke:
> 'cp' does not unlink() before overwriting an existing file, it tries to
> overwrite the data in place. This also fails on *nix, typically with "Text
> file busy".
> 'mv' only modifies the link between file name in directory and file data.
> The OS can keep the old data (inode) until the exe terminates.

That makes plenty of sense.

Thanks,
Andy

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