Re: 2.5.64-mm6

[Andrew Morton]

Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 03:26, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >   This means that when an executable is first mapped in, the kernel will
> >   slurp the whole thing off disk in one hit.  Some IO changes were made to
> >   speed this up.
> 
> Does this just pull in text and data, or will it pull any debug sections
> too?  That could fill memory with a lot of useless junk.
> 

Just text, I expect.  Unless glibc is mapping debug info with PROT_EXEC ;)

It's just a fun hack.  Should be done in glibc.