On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 08:07:23AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Matt Helsley wrote: > > > > Doesn't this pin the vfs mount of the executable for the lifetime of > > the task? > > Well, yes, but so does the current code. Not quite. The current code pins it as long as the corresponding VMAs are mapped -- not for the lifetime of the task. > Sure, in _theory_ it can be a non-mmap executable (maybe people still have > those old OMAGIC a.out executables), and in _theory_ you could unmap the > executable even if it was originally mmap'ed, but neither of those is > exactly common, are they? Not common to my knowledge, no. > > So in practice, nothing has changed wrt lifetime of the executable. Almost all of the time, yes. Cheers, -Matt Helsley -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
