9fans - fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Boyd Roberts <boyd@strakt.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Ephase question.
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 18:23:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D611B75.60203@strakt.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0208122327580.28722-100000@xed.acl.lanl.gov>

Ronald G Minnich wrote:

>I haven't seen a version of unix do this one for a while (as in decades).
>The remove succeeds, the file goes away when the last reference does (but
>you have to have inodes ...).
>
Yes, removal was fixed with BSD so you no longer got ETXTBUSY; the
directory entry would
disappear but the inode would persist.

>But maybe there is some version of Unix
>you're referencing I'm not familiar with -- there's a lot of possibilities
>out there nowadays ...
>
However, this did not fix the over-write problem, which most/all unix'
still suffer from.




  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-19 16:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-13  3:33 presotto
2002-08-13  4:10 ` Alexander Viro
2002-08-13  5:39 ` Ronald G Minnich
2002-08-19 16:23   ` Boyd Roberts [this message]
2002-08-13  6:46 ` Andrew Lynch
2002-08-13 22:07 ` Roman V. Shaposhnick
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-08-14 14:12 Russ Cox
2002-08-14 13:19 rob pike, esq.
2002-08-15  8:59 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-08-15 16:22   ` Ronald G Minnich
2002-08-13 23:49 rog
2002-08-13 17:28 Russ Cox
2002-08-13 17:01 rob pike, esq.
2002-08-13 16:37 anothy
2002-08-13 15:59 Russ Cox
2002-08-14  8:42 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-08-13 15:57 Russ Cox
2002-08-13 15:43 rob pike, esq.
2002-08-13 13:13 rog
2002-08-13 12:16 presotto
2002-08-13 15:53 ` Ronald G Minnich
2002-08-13 11:43 David Gordon Hogan
2002-08-13 15:45 ` Ronald G Minnich
2002-08-13  6:17 Charles Forsyth
     [not found] <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
2002-08-13  5:42 ` Russ Cox
2002-08-13  5:53   ` Scott Schwartz
2002-08-13  6:05   ` Ronald G Minnich
2002-08-13  6:22     ` Alexander Viro
2002-08-13  6:13   ` Alexander Viro
2002-08-13  4:20 Russ Cox
2002-08-13  3:37 rob pike, esq.
2002-08-13  9:31 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-08-13  3:31 Russ Cox
2002-08-13  1:39 presotto
2002-08-13  3:14 ` Roman V. Shaposhnick
2002-08-13  1:26 Roman V. Shaposhnick

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=3D611B75.60203@strakt.com \
    --to=boyd@strakt.com \
    --cc=9fans@cse.psu.edu \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).