[fpc-pascal] Methods for autoupdating fpc programs?

micsch at gmail.com micsch at gmail.com
Sun Oct 4 19:11:53 CEST 2015


> But that makes no sense to me. If the OS is designed to potentially remove
> running programs (or parts of it) from memory it cannot allow overwriting
> the file on disk in any case. When it does so, it cannot remove parts from
> memory because it may not be available on disk anymore. So it must disallow
> the disk change from the beginning, otherwise it may not be able to remove
> anything.
>

http://askubuntu.com/questions/44339/how-does-updating-running-application-binaries-during-an-upgrade-work

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/49299/what-is-linux-doing-differently-that-allows-me-to-remove-replace-files-where-win

http://superuser.com/questions/251129/moving-a-file-while-its-in-use-how-does-it-work



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