Re: [9fans] Ephase question.

[rog@vitanuova.com]

> > would it be too nasty to make the fileserver refuse writes
> > on files that are currenty open with OEXEC?

> sometimes you really do want to update a binary and it's annoying when
> you can't

well, safeinstall would still have its place:

	cp $prereq $stem || mv $prereq _$stem && cp $prereq $stem

...it would just be less exercised.

round here we tend to

	mv /bin/prog /bin/prog.`{date -n}

which leads to less clashes (but does require garbage collection
every so often).

i don't have such a problem doing this with publicly installed
executables; it's when i'm in the usual compile/edit cycle, and
accidentally overwrite a running executable and spend half an hour
looking for the non-existent bug that gets my goat.  it also means
that i have developed a tendency to ignore hard-to-explain problems:
"oh, it must have been overwritten".

  rog.