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Subject: Re: [9fans] Ephase question.
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 01:42:24 -0400
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> > - Unix' solution of making the remove fail with "file busy"; it was
> > always inconvenient and confusing.  They use that one for in use
> > executables.
>
> 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 ...). 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 ...

i've seen it recently on either freebsd or linux,
in the case of trying to remove or perhaps overwrite
binaries that were being executed at the time.
it was definitely a binary rather than a normal file.