On Tue, 14 Nov 2000 18:12:35 -0500,
Danny <danscox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Item two: the test file I use has some 49 tests. Sometimes (sorry,
>I've not yet been able to narrow this down any), the file in question
>acquires a strange quality. Thereafter, any attempt to execute it
>fails, with a result of 'Text file busy'. I'm mystified! No obvious
>entries with 'ps ax' appear, and unmount fails with 'Device busy'. I
>don't have any idea of where to begin looking!
Is this an NFS mount? There used to be problems with writing to NFS
mounted files from a client machine then trying to execute the program
from the host machine. The host marks the file as text busy but
because NFS is stateless, the host does not know when to clear the busy
flag. I do not know if this problem still exists on NFS, I just
stopped performing that type of operation.
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