Re: Why don't shell scripts get loaded into memory at startup?

From: John DuBois (spcecdt_at_deeptht.armory.com)
Date: 04/28/03 

Date: 28 Apr 2003 04:31:11 GMT

In article <b8cip7$fp$1@yin.interaccess.com>,
Kenny McCormack <gazelle@interaccess.com> wrote:
>In another post, Barry M says that he has heard of versions of Unix that do
>prevent even deleting, but I've yet to see one.

XENIX and early versions of SCO UNIX would not allow the deletion of running
executables. Almost all installation scripts for even the most minor of
updates refused to run unless the system was in single-user mode to avoid
problems with this, much to the annoyance of customers. It was corrected in
some version of SCO UNIX (probably 3.2.4 or 5.0.0), perhaps by making the
reference count for an inode include the use of the file as executable text.

        John 

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