Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 23:42:28 -0400
From: James Cassidy <jcassidy@cs.kent.edu>
To: ebuddington@wesleyan.edu
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Dissociating process from bin's filesystem
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    You could always copy the process to a RAM filesystem like tmpfs
or a ramdisk.=20

On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 10:47:14PM -0400, Eric Buddington wrote:
> Is there any way to dissociate a process from its on-disk binary?  In
> other words, I want to start 'foo_daemon', then unmount the filesystem
> it started from. It seems to me this would be reasonably accomplished
> by loading the binary completely into memory first ro eliminate the
> dependence.
>=20
> Is this possible, or planned? Are there intractable problems with it
> that I don't see?
>=20
> Eric Buddington
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