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From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Subject: Re: Stumped by a version conflict.
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* Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> On most modern Unixen it's perfectly possible for an existing process to
> continue to run an executable that's been deleted from the filesystem.

Indeed, but it's not generally a good thing.  I'd recommend installing
something which checks for such things and sends a report when found
(uh, openvas is the first thing that comes to mind, but TIGER IDS might
catch these also).

	Thanks,

		Stephen

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