On Sat, May 06, 2017 at 06:42:46AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
On Sat, May 06, 2017 at 07:52:25AM +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 01:35:35PM -0700, Sergei G wrote:
it would be naive at best to think that busy files [...]
What is a "busy" file?
Open for writing.
Hm. That just means that the file will change after being copied.
In itself not a problem (Note that there are other, stronger concepts
of busy. An open file for write can be opened for read/write by
another process, can be deleted, yadda, yadda. It can be definitely
copied. Less civilised operating systems lock files when opened for
write, but not the Unixoids).