In message <20020607161724.B20483@flash.vaultron.com>, Andrew Gillham writes:
>On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 10:59:31AM -0700, Greywolf wrote:
>> 
>> I know this is also going to seem silly to some people, but I welcome
>> constructive criticism; i.e. if this does NOT seem like a win for some
>> reason (I happen to have the extra 160MB to spare for this, so it
>> seems like a good idea at the time...), fill me in.
>
>I think it would be cool to have a utility that allows you to hardwire an
>executable into the buffer cache.  e.g. "ubcfreeze /usr/bin/* /usr/sbin/*"
>Or maybe "ubcfreeze /usr/pkg/bin/mozilla" :-)
>
>So basically you could load the executable into cache, and never free that
>cache.  So shells, sshd, apache, browsers, perl, compiler, whatever could
>be frozen in the cache.
>
>I don't mean a "don't page this program out" flag, but a "don't remove this
>from the buffer cache" flag instead.  
>
>This seems like it could be cleaner than a mfs setup, but it might be
>impossible to implement.  :-)
>

I have no idea what it would take in the kernel, but I think I know the 
proper user-space utility to do it:

	chmod +t file...


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
		http://www.wilyhacker.com ("Firewalls" book)