Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Security question: "Text file busy" overwriting executables but not shared libraries? | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | 13 Oct 2001 16:27:48 -0600 |
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Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com> writes:
> On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 09:46:03PM +0200, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > There are applications (GCC comes to mind) which are using mmap() to > > read files now because it is measurably faster than read(), for > > sufficiently large source files. > > But it does have the advantage of allowing the sharing of memory, does > it not?
Only if you are going to write to the data.
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