Re: x86, ARM, PARISC, PPC, MIPS and Sparc folks please run this

From: Jamie Lokier (jamie_at_shareable.org)
Date: 09/05/03

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    Date:	Thu, 4 Sep 2003 23:20:36 +0100
To: Larry McVoy <lm@work.bitmover.com>, "Paul J.Y. Lahaie" <pjlahaie@steamballoon.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

    Russell King wrote:
    > > Larry means that it's perfectly normal for libc to map the same file
    > > more than once: you have the code section and the data section.
    >
    > Code is read-only, data is read-write and is copy on write. Therefore
    > its a different scenario.

    Yes, a thinko on my part :)

    -- Jamie
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