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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/9] exec_path 1/9: introduce ->exec_path and switch /proc/*/exe
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 08:07:23AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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>
> On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Matt Helsley wrote:
> >
> > Doesn't this pin the vfs mount of the executable for the lifetime of
> > the task?
>
> Well, yes, but so does the current code.

Not quite. The current code pins it as long as the corresponding VMAs
are mapped -- not for the lifetime of the task.

> Sure, in _theory_ it can be a non-mmap executable (maybe people still have
> those old OMAGIC a.out executables), and in _theory_ you could unmap the
> executable even if it was originally mmap'ed, but neither of those is
> exactly common, are they?

Not common to my knowledge, no.

>
> So in practice, nothing has changed wrt lifetime of the executable.

Almost all of the time, yes.

Cheers,
-Matt Helsley


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