Re: COW pages and paging question

[Hugh Dickins]

On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Torsten Foertsch wrote:
> 
> when a process forks it's pages become shared by COW. Now one or both 
> processes are written partially to the swap space. Later some pages are paged 
> in.
> 
> Are they still shared between the 2 processes? (Assuming they are not written 
> to and cover the same address range)

Yes.
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