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Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 11:34:48 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
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Subject: Re: 2.5.64-mm6
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 03:26, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >   This means that when an executable is first mapped in, the kernel will
> >   slurp the whole thing off disk in one hit.  Some IO changes were made to
> >   speed this up.
> 
> Does this just pull in text and data, or will it pull any debug sections
> too?  That could fill memory with a lot of useless junk.
> 

Just text, I expect.  Unless glibc is mapping debug info with PROT_EXEC ;)

It's just a fun hack.  Should be done in glibc.

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