maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) (07/19/90)
Try this under 4.1BSD: sleep 3600 < /bin/cat & The next hour nobody can use `cat'... When checking if a file is executable, the 4.1 kernel returns ETXTBSY if it is open, even if only for reading. :-( -- "and with a sudden plop it lands on usenet. what is it? omigosh, it must[...] be a new user! quick kill it before it multiplies!" (Loren J. Miller)