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> On Tuesday 20 November 2001 15:51, J.A. Magallon wrote:
> > When a page is deleted for one executable (because we can re-read it from
> > on-disk binary), it is discarded, not paged out.
> 
> What happens if the on-disk binary has changed since loading the program?
> 
The application usually crashes, but in theory it may run with just some 
'strange' behaviour. (Don't worry, apps usually just crash ;)


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