Re: Removing an executable while it runs

[Tim Walberg]

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On 12/05/2001 15:00 -0500, Christopher Friesen wrote:
>>	Couldn't you use mlockall() to ensure that demand paging is not a factor=
?  Then
>>	you should be able to free up the disk space since the actual applicatio=
n is
>>	guaranteed to be in ram.
>>=09

mlockall() only locks those pages that are **currently** paged
in, or optionally those that will be paged in in the future.
Unless you have a way to make sure that all pages of the
binary are actually in memory before you call mlockall(),
this gains you nothing.

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