Re: Dissociating process from bin's filesystem

From: johan.adolfsson@axis.com
Date: Thu Apr 25 2002 - 04:22:00 EST


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

----- Original Message -----
From: "john slee" <indigoid@higherplane.net>
To: <ebuddington@wesleyan.edu>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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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