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From: mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com (Mulyadi Santosa)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: executable ELF is rm-ed from disk, but still running RAM..
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 10:45:34 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTik0UTP4tX9wZYo7A7F=0g48XOxNgg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimh_-edzzR_4Dv0JJEZtn7rOzYyvA@mail.gmail.com>

hi..

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 09:57, Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@gmail.com> wrote:
> How will "rm /bin/rm" work otherwise ?

ok, makes me think another case....suppose we erase the related data
blocks in the disk that correlate to running binary.... does Linux
kernel follow that with erasing all the related page cache? or is it
possible that temporarily cache of the disk blocks still survived?

-- 
regards,

Mulyadi Santosa
Freelance Linux trainer and consultant

blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com
training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-31  3:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-30 14:49 executable ELF is rm-ed from disk, but still running RAM Mulyadi Santosa
2011-05-30 16:26 ` Jonathan Neuschäfer
2011-05-31  1:25 ` Pei Lin
2011-05-31  2:46   ` Mulyadi Santosa
2011-05-31  2:57     ` Manish Katiyar
2011-05-31  3:45       ` Mulyadi Santosa [this message]
2011-05-31  4:42         ` Manish Katiyar
2011-05-31  4:56           ` Vikash Kumar
2011-05-31  6:53             ` Mulyadi Santosa

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