Re: Security question: "Text file busy" overwriting executables but not shared libraries?

Aaron Lehmann
2001-10-13T21:43:24Z

On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 09:46:03PM +0200, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> There are applications (GCC comes to mind) which are using mmap() to
> read files now because it is measurably faster than read(), for
> sufficiently large source files.

But it does have the advantage of allowing the sharing of memory, does
it not?