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- From: jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid)
- Subject: Re: BUG ? I can clobber root's files with `mv'
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.205617.14663@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- References: <BzwK49.H1u@shrdlu.kwnet.on.ca> <1hkr37INNo2p@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> <1992Dec27.193108.12458@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 20:56:17 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec27.193108.12458@klaava.Helsinki.FI> torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds) writes:
- >
- >The alpha diffs also allow running of binaries over NFS (and from a
- >msdos fs without bmap support), but it's done using the "read" vfs
- >function, and it doesn't allow page sharing nor demand-loading. Not
- >recommended for heavy use, but it does work.
- >
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- I was thinking that a fully implement mmap would allow page sharing and
- demand-loading of NFS mounted executables.... Is this correct?
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- Is there a chance of getting a full mmap before 1.0?
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- Am I gibbering total nonsense?
-
- jem.
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