Hello There has been a discussion on the lkml some time ago, so, I thought, it won't be too much OT to ask it here. So, can anybody explain, what's the logic behind the behaviour - one can't overwrite an existing running file, but can remove it? Is overwriting re-uses the inode? And what's the result of that discussion about overwriting shared libraries while they are in use?... And, actually, why these questions arose - does anybody by chance have any pointers to standard ways of updating running systems? For example, is there somewhere a description of how Debian handles installation updates? They seem to manage it pretty well... Thanks Guennadi --------------------------------- Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D. DSA Daten- und Systemtechnik GmbH Pascalstr. 28 D-52076 Aachen Germany -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
