From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3d028c44135ccd6198a182fc47fd24c4@plan9.bell-labs.com> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Ephase question. From: "rob pike, esq." MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 11:43:00 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: dc017408-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > would it be too nasty to make the fileserver refuse writes > on files that are currenty open with OEXEC? We talked a lot about this in the early design days. If I recall right we decided to allow the write, given permission, because sometimes you really do want to update a binary and it's annoying when you can't: build scripts fail, installs abort, that sort of thing. There are times when we install everything and it's nice not to worry about it. Although it's far from perfect, I'm comfortable enough with the safeinstall notion to leave things as they are. I realize that's not much of an argument. -rob