Hi Maurice!

 WC>> You mean like rm -r / 
 MK> For sure except that will fail as soon as it deletes rm ... won't it? 
Nope. The kernel has a reference to the file, which means the inode only
gets freed once the program stops running. The "rm /bin/rm"
before only frees the directory entry.

What you can't do while rm is running is writing to /bin/rm. If you try,
you get a "Text file busy" error (EBUSY).

Ciao
Pascal

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