From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org>
Cc: ebuddington@wesleyan.edu,
Eric Buddington <eric@ma-northadams1b-46.bur.adelphia.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Dissociating process from bin's filesystem
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 13:52:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CC8426E.B2DBDCE@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020424224714.B19073@ma-northadams1b-46.bur.adelphia.net> <20020425184801.60BDC742@merlin.webofficenow.com>
Rob Landley wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 24 April 2002 10:47 pm, Eric Buddington wrote:
> > Is there any way to dissociate a process from its on-disk binary?
>
> Sure. Fire up an instance of ramfs, copy the file there (and its associated
> libraries), chroot and exec the copy on ramfs. Sort of like initrd in
> reverse. :)
If you're writing the binary in question, you could use mlockall() which ensures
that you won't need to page in bits of the binary from disk. I don't know if
the filesystem considers this totally dissociated though, but it might be good
enough for what you want.
Chris
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-25 18:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-25 2:47 Dissociating process from bin's filesystem Eric Buddington
2002-04-25 3:42 ` James Cassidy
2002-04-25 8:52 ` john slee
2002-04-25 9:22 ` johan.adolfsson
2002-04-25 11:42 ` Padraig Brady
2002-04-27 19:03 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-04-25 12:28 ` Rob Landley
2002-04-25 17:52 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
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