Re: swap and 2.4.20

[Mike Fedyk]

On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 04:07:33PM -0400, Hacksaw wrote:
> Does this mean that you could replace a library out from under a running but 
> largely paged out app, and have it suddenly switch to the new library?

Technically yes, but realistically no.

You'd more likely crash the app since maybe only a few pages of the new code
were paged in, and nothing says that it's the update of the code you wanted...
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