On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.sant...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi.. > > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 09:57, Manish Katiyar <mkati...@gmail.com> wrote: >> How will "rm /bin/rm" work otherwise ? > > ok, makes me think another case....suppose we erase the related data > blocks in the disk that correlate to running binary.... does Linux > kernel follow that with erasing all the related page cache? or is it > possible that temporarily cache of the disk blocks still survived?
I don't know for sure, but my guess is that the OS wouldn't notice it till it goes out of cache and it has to reload. -- Thanks - Manish _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
