Re: Execute in place

[Hugh Dickins]

On Tue, 1 May 2007, Phillip Susi wrote:
> I seem to remember seeing some patches go by at some point that allowed one of
> the rom type embeded system filesystems to directly execute binaries out of
> the original rom memory rather than copying them to ram first, then executing
> from there.  I was wondering if rootfs or tmpfs support such execute in place
> today, or if binaries executed from there have their code segments duplicated
> in ram?

Only ext2 supports it today: see Documentation/filesystems/xip.txt

Hugh
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