Re: Dissociating process from bin's filesystem

Doesn't mlockall() do this?
man mlockall
/Johan

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From: "john slee" <[e-mail]>
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Sent: den 25 april 2002 10:52
Subject: Re: Dissociating process from bin's filesystem

> On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 10:47:14PM -0400, Eric Buddington wrote:
> > Is there any way to dissociate a process from its on-disk binary?  In
> > other words, I want to start 'foo_daemon', then unmount the filesystem
> > it started from. It seems to me this would be reasonably accomplished
> > by loading the binary completely into memory first ro eliminate the
> > dependence.
> >
> > Is this possible, or planned? Are there intractable problems with it
> > that I don't see?
>
> as i understand it this precludes you from using shared libs as they are
> mmap()'d on startup...
>
> other than that the running daemon will cause the fs to be
> un-umountable.
>
> j.
>
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