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Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 12:40:58 -0500 (EST)
From: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
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To: Christopher Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
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Subject: Re: Swap
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On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Christopher Friesen wrote:

> "Richard B. Johnson" wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Wolfgang Rohdewald wrote:
> > 
> > > 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?
> > > -
> > 
> > It can't. That's the reason for `install` and other methods of changing
> > execututable files (mv exe-file exe-file.old ; cp newfile exe-file).
> > The currently open, and possibly mapped file can be re-named, but it
> > can't be overwritten.
> 
> Actually, with NFS (and probably others) it can.  Suppose I change the file on
> the server, and it's swapped out on a client that has it mounted.  When it swaps
> back in, it can get the new information.
> 
> Chris

I note that NFS files don't currently return ETXTBSY, but this is a bug.
It is 'known' to the OS that the NFS mounted file-system is busy because
you can't unmount the file-system while an executable is running. If
you can trash it (as you can on Linux), it is surely a bug.

Alan explained a few years ago that NFS was "stateless". Nevertheless
it is still a bug.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

Penguin : Linux version 2.4.1 on an i686 machine (799.53 BogoMips).

    I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be
    attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del
    was handled in the BIOS, I found that there aren't any.


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