ETXTBSY (was: How to find process name in c?)
Maarten Litmaath
maart at cs.vu.nl
Thu Jul 19 11:07:52 AEST 1990
Try this under 4.1BSD:
sleep 3600 < /bin/cat &
The next hour nobody can use `cat'...
When checking if a file is executable, the 4.1 kernel returns ETXTBSY if
it is open, even if only for reading. :-(
--
"and with a sudden plop it lands on usenet. what is it? omigosh, it must[...]
be a new user! quick kill it before it multiplies!" (Loren J. Miller)
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