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Date: Tue,  9 Nov 2004 15:00:39 +0100
From: Heiko Dudzus <heiko.dudzus@gmx.de>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] items in /bin with leading underscores
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C H Forsyth wrote:
> Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
> > replica/pull moves the old versions out of the way by changing
> > their names (they could be running), before copying new ones over.
>
> it only does it once, and the next run will discard the
> file saved by the first run, so if you've got long-running systems
> (and since you're running plan 9, they often are long-running systems
> once they are running), you still need to worry about it.
> it's a good question whether the file servers should.

Isn't a complete image of the running binaries in the memory (of the
machine where it runs on). I ever thought a running program was
independent of its file. 

(I'm not sure if I really should take part of this discussion, because it goes
beyond my knowledge and understanding ;-/