> Later versions of OS/2 have an attribute to specify that certain
> executables (DLLs that are of comparable usefulness to libc) get swapped out
> instead of having the code pages discarded and paged in from file. This
> apparently gives good performance gains.
UNIX has such an attribute as well, the sticky bit (chmod u+t ...). The
difference is just that it for entire executables. I think few of todays
machines actually honor it though all of them still have
the bit in the fs.
Ralf
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