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		iamrohitbanga on April 24, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Unraveling rm: what happens when you run it? Why does rm need to call mprotect or ioctl?

saagarjha on April 24, 2018 [–]

It's called by the dynamic loader when it's loading pages into memory.

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