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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!uunet!math.fu-berlin.de!news.th-darmstadt.de!iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de!deeken From: deeken@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Hannes Deeken) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: File Truncation Philosophy Date: 3 Apr 1993 14:57:19 +0200 Organization: TU Darmstadt, ITI Lines: 18 Message-ID: <deeken.733841578@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de> References: <C4tJ6C.C17@ns1.nodak.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: spelunke.iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu (Mark Tinguely) writes: > If you have other ideas or opinions, flame away. Why flame? ;) Why not just arrange it in a way that a process which tries to open the file containing the pages of an active process for writing fails and finds ETXTBSY in errno? (Always wondered what this error code is good for, if not for this case :) Ciao, Hannes -- Hans-Christoph Deeken (deeken@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de) TH Darmstadt, Germany