on Tue, Apr 16, 2002, John Hasler (john@dhh.gt.org) wrote:
> Karsten writes:
> > Swap is there for programs that are, er, swapped.
>
> Executables, being read-only, are mapped directly from disk and never
> use any swap at all. Only data gets mapped to swap.
Hmm...interesting.
References?
Is this a GNU/Linux thing or a more general Unix/POSIX thing? Recent
development or long-time feature.
Peace.
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