Strange message: Text file busy.

[John E Hein]

Looks like a bug in (t)csh.

csh
echo date > foo
lsof foo
COMMAND   PID  USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF  NODE NAME
csh     66961 jhein    4w  VREG   4,17        5 60067 foo
exit
lsof foo
echo $version
tcsh 6.13.00 (Astron) 2004-05-19 (i386-intel-FreeBSD) options 8b,nls,dl,al,kan,sm,rh,color,dspm,filec


sh
echo date > foo
lsof foo


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