> 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?
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It can't. That's the reason for `install` and other methods of changing
execututable files (mv exe-file exe-file.old ; cp newfile exe-file).
The currently open, and possibly mapped file can be re-named, but it
can't be overwritten.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.1 on an i686 machine (799.53 BogoMips).
I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be
attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del
was handled in the BIOS, I found that there aren't any.
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