Re: [Help-bash] Editing a running bash script can cause it fail?

[Greg Wooledge]

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:30:14AM +0000, Greg St. Louis wrote:
> I'm not editing my script, but I am ejecting the DVD that I started it 
> from in the middle of processing. Nonetheless, I'm seeing the same 
> symptom - failure.

I'm surprised the operating system allows you to unmount the file system
with an open file.  Perhaps you're ejecting without unmounting.

> Can the bash behavior that's been described here account for my issue as 
> well? If bash attempts to read from the script after it's started but the 
> physical medium on which it exists has been detached, will I encounter 
> issues?

Almost certainly.