Re: don't just seek to the next line if the script has been edited

[Mike Frysinger]

On Sunday 09 June 2013 16:59:15 Linda Walsh wrote:
> jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
> > All I know is there I am in emacs seeing things in the output of a
> > running bash script that I want to tweak and get busy tweaking and saving
> > changes before the script finishes, thinking that all this stuff will be
> > effective on the next run of it, when lo and behold now it begins
> > executing random bytes... Yes one can say that these are not C programs
> 
> ----
> If they were C programs, and you were to edit binary in place, while it was
> executing, using memory-mapped I/O, the machine might very well start
> executing garbage and your C program would dump core or similar.

pretty sure the linux kernel (and others?) would return ETXTBSY and not even 
allow the write
-mike

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