Isn't /usr/bin/install expected to do exactly this?
If I try to "cp" a new version over a running binary, I get an error,
but the same with "install" works.
> This isn't an ld.so bug. If you modified the image of any program while it
> was running (say, by moving the entry point to fputs 16 bytes earlier)
> you would expect it to run erratically. Or just limp. If it ran at all.
No. You can't do that at all - ETXTBSY.
Olaf
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