Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 03:26, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > This means that when an executable is first mapped in, the kernel will
> > slurp the whole thing off disk in one hit. Some IO changes were made to
> > speed this up.
>
> Does this just pull in text and data, or will it pull any debug sections
> too? That could fill memory with a lot of useless junk.
>
Just text, I expect. Unless glibc is mapping debug info with PROT_EXEC ;)
It's just a fun hack. Should be done in glibc.
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