Messages in this thread | | | From | johan.adolfsson@axis ... | Subject | Re: Dissociating process from bin's filesystem | Date | Thu, 25 Apr 2002 11:22:00 +0200 |
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Doesn't mlockall() do this? man mlockall /Johan
----- Original Message ----- From: "john slee" <indigoid@higherplane.net> To: <ebuddington@wesleyan.edu> Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Sent: den 25 april 2002 10:52 Subject: Re: Dissociating process from bin's filesystem
> 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. > > > > Is this possible, or planned? Are there intractable problems with it > > that I don't see? > > as i understand it this precludes you from using shared libs as they are > mmap()'d on startup... > > other than that the running daemon will cause the fs to be > un-umountable. > > j. > > -- > R N G G "Well, there it goes again... And we just sit > I G G G here without opposable thumbs." -- gary larson > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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