On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Ari Heitner wrote:
> this has to be a dumb idea
Not really, you're just 8 (9?) years too late...
> The question is, why shouldn't it be possible to share the text
> segments of *all* running programs?
Linux uses shared mmap() for "loading" executables (well,
they're just
this has to be a dumb idea -- either it's way harder to implement than i think,
or it's just plain impossible. but i'm curious why it won't work.
So, if you fork, all the pages in both the child and the parent are marked COW.
Since the text segment is read only, it'll never be written to; all
this has to be a dumb idea -- either it's way harder to implement than i think,
or it's just plain impossible. but i'm curious why it won't work.
So, if you fork, all the pages in both the child and the parent are marked COW.
Since the text segment is read only, it'll never be written to; all
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Ari Heitner wrote:
this has to be a dumb idea
Not really, you're just 8 (9?) years too late...
The question is, why shouldn't it be possible to share the text
segments of *all* running programs?
Linux uses shared mmap() for "loading" executables (well,
they're just
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