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

Richard Gooch
2001-10-13T22:41:39Z

Jamie Lokier writes:
> 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.

So? MAP_PRIVATE is just fine for these. The simple solution if you
care about an edit in the middle of a compile is to have your editor
write a new file and do an atomic rename. No half-and-half data
problems, and the VM logic is kept simple (well, relative to what we
have now;-).

Regards,

Richard....
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