Demand paged executables
Brad Smith
brad at polaris.ucsc.edu
Fri Feb 3 02:53:41 AEST 1989
Two questions/points on this:
- Wouldn't there be some problems with other links to
a file being invalidated (pointing to the old version)
if the file was unlinked, a new inode allocated, and
a new link created to copy over an executing program?
- It seems the reason for not locking shell scripts is
that virtual memory for the executable is not being
paged out of the file containing the script. Some
program (typically a shell) is being run with the
contents of the script as input... or something to
that effect.
Brad Smith
CIS Board, UC Santa Cruz
brad at saturn.ucsc.edu
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