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

Mulyadi Santosa mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com
Mon May 30 23:45:34 EDT 2011


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?

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