gnu linux update question

[Joe Zeff]

On 06/28/2011 09:21 AM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
> Andrew Haley wrote:
>
>> How could it be otherwise?
>
> If a file has been deleted, the proper thing would be for the running process
> to read the new copy into memory.
>

And how, pray tell, would the running process know that?  In Unix and 
Linux a file doesn't completely go away until the last program using it 
closes the (otherwise deleted) file.  Programs trying to open the file 
will either get the new version, if there is one, or create a new copy 
if it wasn't replaced.  AFAIK, this has always been true, and what the 
OP was complaining about is just the way things are.  I can well 
understand why the OP is Not Happy with the situation, but there's not 
much that can be done about it.