Re: Questions regarding Linux swapping.

Ralf Baechle (ralf@uni-koblenz.de)
Tue, 3 Aug 1999 00:20:09 +0200


On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 12:08:15AM +0200, Dominik Kubla wrote:

> Well there used to be a Unix way of doing this:
> Setting the 1000 flag on binaries used to lock them in memory. But that is not
> implemented in Linux.

The original meaning of the sticky bit was ``keep the program around in
swap space''. The question is if any current systems still implement
the sticky bit semantics ...

Ralf

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