Re: MiNT 1.10 re-sync

[Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.north.de>]

Michael Hohmuth writes:

> > 6. and now the sticky text/fragmentation megapatch...  does a few things:
> 
> > . execv..() frees the old process memory before allocating the new ones,
> > and so no longer leaves holes in your memory map.  this took a few
> > ugly hacks but i think its worth it :)  the only visible change should
> > be when exec'ing a damaged binary the process gets killed, fixing that
> > would require reading executables twice.
> 
> Well, that's fine with me, but I don't know whether this "non-posixish"
> behaviour is tolerable by all others?  I guess so... as it effectively
> makes "damaged executable" equivalent to "executable crashed immediately
> after it has been run".

 or whats on systems that demand-page text instead of loading it all at
once...  do they always check the entire file before?
> 
> Opinions?

 should there be some flag to turn it off?  in mint.cnf?
> 
> Michael
 cheers
	Juergen
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