Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 13 Oct 2001 14:43:37 -0700 | From | Aaron Lehmann <> | Subject | Re: Security question: "Text file busy" overwriting executables but not shared libraries? |
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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? - 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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