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Date:      Thu, 27 Mar 1997 11:58:24 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        stesin@gu.net
Cc:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, smc@servtech.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Anyone else seen this?
Message-ID:  <199703270128.LAA04400@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970326132352.6258H-100000@trifork.gu.net> from Andrew Stesin at "Mar 26, 97 01:28:28 pm"

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Andrew Stesin stands accused of saying:
> On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Michael Smith wrote:
> > 
> > This looks very much like a problem that has been reported many times
> > before, where one or more pages from a process' text are written back
> > to the file.  The pages aren't actually changed, but the file's timestamp
> > is obviously updated.
> 
> 	Just curious, what will happen in case the program file affected
> 	by this bug will occasionally reside on a R/O-mounted FS?

I haven't tried this, or heard anyone that has.

> 	If the kernel will eat this difference quietly, without
> 	any strange side effects, crashes, messages or so -- I'd probably
> 	wonder...

Likewise.

> Andrew Stesin

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