Re: How to replace an executing file on an embedded system?

[Al Viro]

On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 01:37:17AM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> In article <Pine.LNX.4.61.0506011828300.5925@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote:
> > What am I missing?  How am I supposed to replace files that
> > are being executed?
> 
> The problem is that a unlinked file which is open will be removed from the
> filesystem on close. I think this is not new. You can make init reexecute
> itself (telinit u)

With sysvinit you can, that is.  And no, this behaviour of umount is nothing
new, of course - wrongbot is just being its usual self.
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