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Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 14:43:37 -0700
From: Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com>
To: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Security question: "Text file busy" overwriting executables but not shared libraries?
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On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 09:46:03PM +0200, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> There are applications (GCC comes to mind) which are using mmap() to
> read files now because it is measurably faster than read(), for
> sufficiently large source files.

But it does have the advantage of allowing the sharing of memory, does
it not?
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