Re: Swap

Remco Post (r.post@sara.nl)
Tue, 20 Nov 2001 17:06:36 +0100

> On Tuesday 20 November 2001 15:51, J.A. Magallon wrote:
> > When a page is deleted for one executable (because we can re-read it from
> > on-disk binary), it is discarded, not paged out.
>
> What happens if the on-disk binary has changed since loading the program?
>
The application usually crashes, but in theory it may run with just some
'strange' behaviour. (Don't worry, apps usually just crash ;)

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