Jeremy Fitzhardinge [off-list ref] wrote:

On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 03:26, Andrew Morton wrote:

quoted

  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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