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What does the swapping system do if it identifies the illegal page for swapping?

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What does the swapping system do if it identifies the illegal page for swapping?
posted Jan 6, 2016 by Mohammed Hussain

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If the disk block descriptor does not contain any record of the faulted page, then this causes the attempted memory reference is invalid and the kernel sends a “Segmentation violation” signal to the offending process. This happens when the swapping system identifies any invalid memory reference.

answer Jan 7, 2016 by Shivaranjini
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