> The only scenario I can think, when two or more processes share VMA of > text region (pay attention, you are asking about VMA, not the page or > page frame) are in multi threading. Since they execute same code (in > most cases, new thread are created with clone() using CLONE_VM), it > makes sense to share the text region for efficiency. Do you mean the page tables are shared ? This means they have the same page global directory. How is this accomplished ? -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
