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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!mcsun!marble.uknet.ac.uk!uknet!cf-cm!paul From: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: File Truncation Philosophy Message-ID: <1993Apr2.140809.16589@cm.cf.ac.uk> Date: 2 Apr 93 14:08:07 GMT References: <C4tJ6C.C17@ns1.nodak.edu> <CGD.93Apr1204906@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> <1993Apr2.072443.790@cm.cf.ac.uk> <CGD.93Apr2020413@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: news@cm.cf.ac.uk (Network News System) Organization: /usr/local/lib/rn/organisation Lines: 18 In article <CGD.93Apr2020413@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes: > >=>We're not just talking about installation and init updates. You can't >=>expect novice users to know that they shouldn't copy foo.new to foo >=>while they're running foo. > >if they do it, then their foo will die, and that's it. Don't you think that's broken too? It's hardly desirable to be able to kill a running process by overwriting the file. I think we need to fix more than just binary installation tools. -- Paul Richards, University of Wales, College Cardiff Internet: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk