Re: freeing a static after one use only?

From: Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm+eric@ccr.net)
Date: Fri Feb 18 2000 - 15:11:49 EST


Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cus.cam.ac.uk> writes:

> On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Peter T. Breuer wrote:
> [snip]
> > Modules are apparently in a space that can be swapped out. Should I
> [snip]
>
> Is that always the case? - Or would it happen only if the ref count is 0?

Modules can't be swapped.
They can be totally removed from the kerenl when ref count is 0.
But they can't be paged or swapped.

Eric

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