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Re: The kernel (file system) in Debian supports replacing files even while they're being used.



On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 14:30, khromy wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 10:01:49PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote:
> >     /tmp$ cp -v /bin/sleep mysleep 
> >     /tmp$ (./mysleep 100 &); cp -v /bin/sleep mysleep 
> 
> (./mysleep 100 &); rm mysleep; cp -v /bin/sleep mysleep
> 
> ^-- works

Shaul knows that *that* works.  He wants to know how dpkg can
update active/open files, while he can't... 

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