Re: Anybody out there? (ETXTBSY)

Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de)
27 Aug 1998 20:04:21 +0200

In article <19980827023536.C9225@dot.cygnus.com>,
Richard Henderson <rth@cygnus.com> writes:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 02:26:28PM -0500, pacman wrote:
>> Is nobody interested on getting ETXTBSY to work for shared libs? Come on,
>> take a break from the EFAULT wars and walk down the street to 26 Errno Lane
>> and tell me what you think.

> ETXTBSY is explicitly not set on shared libraries. If you turn
> it on, it is impossible to upgrade libc.so.

Of course it is.

sln /lib/libc.so /lib/libc.so-old
sln -sf /lib/libc.so.new.version /lib/libc.so

Also currently when you overwrite libc.so then lots of programs SIGBUS
and SIGSEGV - ETXTBSY is better.

-Andi

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