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On Linux you can delete all hardlinks to open files. What you can't do is modify a file that's executing (program or library), then you get ETXTBSY.
by Chu4eeno 4mo ago
On Linux you can delete all hardlinks to open files.
What you can't do is modify a file that's executing (program or library), then you get ETXTBSY.
- 1718627440 4mo agoMy question was about Windows, yeah on Linux it obviously doesn't matter, because you can unlink it even if there is only a single hardlink. My bad, I should have written it. > What you can't do is modify a file that's executing (program or library), then you get ETXTBSY. Why can't you? Couldn't it do the same thing and just keep it in memory? Edit: Actually on my system, I can start a program, unlink it and keep using it just fine. I wonder what case you are referring to. ETXTBSY isn't even descriped in unlink(2), but it is in unlink(3posix): ETXTBSY - The entry to be unlinked is the last directory entry to a pure procedure (shared text) file that is being executed.