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mm and active_mm in task_struct

Hello,

What's the purpose of active_mm? I guess, It's been added to 2.4 kernels 
and it wasn't in 2.2.

Can someone shortly describe an - e.g. elf - binary loading process by 
exec()?

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Muzaffer Ozakca

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