From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 26 14:33:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA05032 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 14:33:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA05017 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 14:33:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA28898; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 15:18:04 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199703262218.PAA28898@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Anyone else seen this? To: witr@rwwa.com (Robert Withrow) Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 15:18:04 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199703261144.GAA29114@spooky.rwwa.com> from "Robert Withrow" at Mar 26, 97 06:44:58 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > :- gdb now stops the program with the message "Process killed due to text > :- file modification", and sure enough, the file's date is changing but a > :- diff between an idle copy and the "modified" executable is nil. > > I recall that SVR4 had this bug (shared libs getting touched during > execution of a program) for quite a while... Did we inherit it from > the same place they did? No. SVR4 would actually *WRITE* dirty pages to the library under some circumstances. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.