executable ELF is rm-ed from disk, but still running RAM..

[Manish Katiyar]

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Mulyadi Santosa
<mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi..
>
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 09:57, Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar at 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.

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Thanks -
Manish