On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Andreas Kahari wrote:
> On 06/10/05, Ilya A. Kovalenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > TK> just edit a copy, chmod +x and mv(1) it into place.
> >
> > Slightly complicated, but works, because mv(1) removes
> > old file, so sh(1) working either old version or new one
> > (no "hybrids").
>
> Yes, sh(1) will probably keep a descriptor to the old file and keep
> using it until done.
>
> However, does this have any kind of other implications? The behaviour
> that Ilya pointed out would not occur to me to be expected...
I know this behaviour form every Unix system I've worked on. Besides,
the nice thing about the current way of doing things is that you can
read a script form a pipe and have the desired behaviour without any
special case code.
-Otto
