pages and memory-mapped files may be "swapped-out" even *without* a swap
device. As an example, when I first start /bin/bash (ignoring readahead
Fair enough. The kernel can reclaim pieces of RAM knowing that certain
text sections will availble on the storage medium from which they were
originally loaded. Right?
Also, I suppose one of the less obvious side-effects of using copy_to_user
would be to cause a copy-on-write of a data section?
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