[Mono-dev] What would you like to see in Mono?

[Mirco Bauer]

On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 23:44 +0200, Zoltan Varga wrote:
>                                             Hi,
> 
>   I always tought that shadow copying is only needed on windows. AFAIK, on unix,
> you can overwrite the assemblies currently loaded by the runtime, but you need
> to delete the original file beforehand.

>  The unix file system allows processes to
> read from the files which were deleted after they were opened by the process.

thats true when the fd to the assembly is not closed, but I fear Mono is
closing the fd during execution.

I saw manytimes this "strange crashes" on file replace during debian
package upgrades...


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Regards,

Mirco 'meebey' Bauer

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