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From: mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com (Mulyadi Santosa)
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 10:45:34 +0700
Subject: executable ELF is rm-ed from disk, but still running RAM..
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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?

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