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From: rcj@burl.UUCP (R. Curtis Jackson)
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Subject: how can I tell when my shared text file is in use?
Message-ID: <462@burl.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 10-May-84 17:51:07 EDT
Article-I.D.: burl.462
Posted: Thu May 10 17:51:07 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 12-May-84 08:55:30 EDT
Organization: AT&T Technologies; Burlington, NC
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USG 5.0 on Vax 11/780; I have a microassembler under development
which is compiled with -n (shared text).  When I do a 'make install',
if the text file is busy at the time when it wants to 'rm' the
current version and install the new one, I get this message and
the makefile bombs:

*** ERROR 8853575

( I think that number is correct; it doesn't really matter ).

Is there an easy way, without piping a 'ps -e' through 'grep'
in a while loop, to make sure that my makefile waits until the
text file is no longer busy before attempting to 'rm' the current
executable?

Thanks much in advance,
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