Overwriting paging files

[Chris Torek]

In article <8545 at sun.uucp> guy at sun.uucp (Guy Harris) writes:
>In a system using NFS ... if the process using that file tries to
>fetch a page from a file that has been modified since the process
>in question first attached to it, it gets zapped by a SIGKILL (a
>message is printed on the user's terminal, if there's a terminal
>associated with this process).

Not very nice.  It would be better if the pages were brought over
and stored locally until the process is done with them.  This could
be done as a `background task', to keep it from affecting performance
much.
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