RE: 2.4 and 2GB swap partition limit

Torrey Hoffman
2001-04-30T18:46:31Z

Kenneth Johansson wrote:
> Jonathan Lundell wrote:
> >
> > (Does Linux swap out text, by the way, he asks ignorantly?)
>
> .text is just droped and read back from the actuall file it's
> not put into the swap

Is this always true, even for init? Can init be swapped out?

In general, is there a safe way to replace executable files for
programs that might be running while their on-disk images are
replaced?

Thanks for any hints...

Torrey Hoffman
torrey.hoffman@myrio.com