Re: Effect of deleting executables of running programs

[Ryan Cumming]

On Wednesday 18 August 2004 13:11, Shriram R wrote:
> Yes, the nodes were accessing the executable over NFS.

My wild guess is that this has to do with executables paging themselves in on 
demand. In the NFS case, if the file disappears on the share, paging in will 
fail. However, on a local filesystem, the inode won't disappear until all 
users are gone, so paging in on demand will still work.

-Ryan

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