Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: Linux's Virtual Memory implementation | Date | Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:29:54 +0100 (BST) |
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> After talking with my dad about it, he said that this > was a very different way to look at virtual memory. > Is this true? Is there something new about Linux's > way?
It was original once. But that was about 1982.
> As an example, my dad said that under Solaris you can > start a program and then remove the disk that the > program is on. I'm fairly sure Linux can't do that.
You can't actually remove the disk from under a Solaris app - it pages code from the original file.
Alan
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