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From: mkatiyar@gmail.com (Manish Katiyar)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: executable ELF is rm-ed from disk, but still running RAM..
Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 21:42:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTima=B180P0yp1ps124RpauVHtQuwA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTik0UTP4tX9wZYo7A7F=0g48XOxNgg@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Mulyadi Santosa
<mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

I don't know for sure, but my guess is that the OS wouldn't notice it
till it goes out of cache and it has to reload.

-- 
Thanks -
Manish

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-31  4:42 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
2011-05-31  4:42         ` Manish Katiyar [this message]
2011-05-31  4:56           ` Vikash Kumar
2011-05-31  6:53             ` Mulyadi Santosa

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