Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 23:20:36 +0100
From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@work.bitmover.com>,
       "Paul J.Y. Lahaie" <pjlahaie@steamballoon.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: x86, ARM, PARISC, PPC, MIPS and Sparc folks please run this
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Russell King wrote:
> > Larry means that it's perfectly normal for libc to map the same file
> > more than once: you have the code section and the data section.
> 
> Code is read-only, data is read-write and is copy on write.  Therefore
> its a different scenario.

Yes, a thinko on my part :)

-- Jamie
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