Hi Jasen!

 PS>> What you can't do while rm is running is writing to /bin/rm. If you
 PS>> try, you get a "Text file busy" error (EBUSY).
 JB> Once I managed to circumvent that error (NFS was involved) but the 
 JB> results were inconveneirnt (i got SEGV, core dumped on the running 
 JB> prog)
Yeah, that's because NFS v2 and v3 don't know which files are open on
clients. Trying to run a mixture of old and new data as a binary program is
bound to have problems -- as soon as a part of the executable needs to be
paged in on the client, you run a mixture of old and new code.

Ciao
Pascal

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