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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Help needed in elvis editor
Message-ID: <6UR9P_1@xds13.ferranti.com>
Date: 27 Feb 91 20:45:39 GMT
References: <1991Feb27.155309.28624@hoss.unl.edu>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <1991Feb27.155309.28624@hoss.unl.edu> behera@hoss.unl.edu (Siddharth Behera) writes:
> 	After this I can login again and work.  But the file which I was
> working on is busy.  That is if I try to open the file by elvis I see a 
> message appearing on the terminal "file xxx is busy", where xxx is the file
> I was editing. ...

Elvis creates a temp file in /tmp with the name based on the device and
inode number of the file. Any file with that device and inode number will
be "busy". This was a reasonable design choice for a single user system,
I guess, but the consequences should be better spelled out in the
documentation.

Remove the file in /tmp and the problem will go away.
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