Re: [patch?] Re: Do ramdisk exec's map direct to buffer cache?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 9 Aug 2000 19:02:11 +0100 (BST)

> Because of large shared library we'll use,
> We want elf-based XIP binfmt.
> Perhaps I'll work for it, but can't see the way.

If you map the library into the page cache it will be there read only. ELF
fixups will copy on write some pages into RAM.

Alan

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