Re: Security question: "Text file busy" overwriting executables but

[Xavier Bestel]

le dim 14-10-2001 à 08:49, Eric W. Biederman a écrit :
> Also read-with-PAGE_COPY has some really interesting implications for the
> page out routines.  Because anytime you start the page out you have to
> copy the page.  Not exactly when you want to increase the memory presure.
> And not at all suitable for shared libraries.

I didn't understood very well why you would want to swap out a page
marked PAGE_COPY ? Doesn't it make sense to special-case it and just
leave it "in the file", as long as it's untouched ?

	Xav