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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