strip 04/17/95 bug (fwd)

[H.J. Lu]

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Subject: strip 04/17/95 bug
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Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 21:00:29 -0700 (PDT)
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Hi Net,

I just noticed that  strip is unable  to handle an executable  that is
currently in  use   and      that  has  multiple  links     (like   my
/usr/local/bin/zsh that  is also  known  as /bin/zsh).  This is  to be
expected, because  files in use can't be  opened for writing and files
with  multiple links can't  be unlinked and re-written. However, strip
doesn't show any error message - instead it  exits silently and leaves
a file named something like 'sta01267'. This is NOT  to be expected, I
think.

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