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From: dave@elecvax.SUN (Dave Horsfall)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: how can I tell when my shared text file is in use?
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Date: Tue, 22-May-84 13:44:29 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 22 13:44:29 1984
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Instead of trying to remove the current object, why not simply rename it
instead?  Our 'install' command procedure renames things from say /bin/fred
to /bin/fred$$old (if told to do so with a - flag) where '$$' is of course
the shell pid.  It also chmod 0 and chown root it as well, and such things
show up on a nightly inspection of the file system.

Dave Horsfall
Computing Services Unit
University of NSW
Australia

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