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Originally Posted by matrixmadhan
it works on RHEL3 !
It will work on any OS using a Linux kernel. This includes Red Hat. It is interesting that it works on Solaris though. I have always thought that ETXTBSY was silly. Of course you can't a program while it is running. But there is no reason to prohibit the unlink. The file will have zero links but will not be deleted until the reference count is also zero. This is the way data files have always been handled in Unix.