Re: Removing an executable while it runs

[Petr Vandrovec]

On  5 Dec 01 at 11:32, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> > No. Some will refuse to unlink running app (or another opened file).
> > Some will unlink it immediately, and app then dies when it needs
> > page-in something. Some works as POSIX mandates.
> > 
> 
> POSIX behaviour would be in ext[23], reiserfs, xfs, (and probably ffs,
> ntfs).  Can someone verify which FSes have what behaviour?
> 
> I'd guess that vfat (fat16/28--err, 32), nfs, and hfs would delete
> immediately.

ncpfs (and afaik smbfs) will refuse to delete file. For local filesystems
there is no excuse to not support POSIX semantic on unlink if they do not
store data together with filename.
                                                Petr Vandrovec
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