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On Wed, 26 Mar 1997 13:28:28 Andrew Stesin said:
>
>       Just curious, what will happen in case the program file affected
>       by this bug will occasionally reside on a R/O-mounted FS?
> 
>       If the kernel will eat this difference quietly, without
>       any strange side effects, crashes, messages or so -- I'd probably
>       wonder...
> 

Yes, it will.  I tried this today, and even GDB was happy.  As soon as I
remounted the filesystem R/W the problem reappeared...

So, it seems to me we have two interesting data points regarding this:

1) Statically linked binaries are not affected by this phenomenon.
2) Binaries residing on R/O filesystems are not affected either.

Does anyone know anything else?

-Shawn