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From: Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org>
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        Eric Buddington <eric@ma-northadams1b-46.bur.adelphia.net>,
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Subject: Re: Dissociating process from bin's filesystem
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 08:28:01 -0400
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On Wednesday 24 April 2002 10:47 pm, Eric Buddington wrote:
> Is there any way to dissociate a process from its on-disk binary?

Sure.  Fire up an instance of ramfs, copy the file there (and its associated 
libraries), chroot and exec the copy on ramfs.  Sort of like initrd in 
reverse. :)

You could also try to extensively rewrite the kernel to completely disable 
paging, but I wouldn't recommend it.

Rob
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