Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Apr 2002 13:52:46 -0400 | From | Chris Friesen <> | Subject | Re: Dissociating process from bin's filesystem |
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Rob Landley wrote: > > 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. :)
If you're writing the binary in question, you could use mlockall() which ensures that you won't need to page in bits of the binary from disk. I don't know if the filesystem considers this totally dissociated though, but it might be good enough for what you want.
Chris
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