From owner-freebsd-current Fri Dec 5 10:13:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA20916 for current-outgoing; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 10:13:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA20910 for ; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 10:13:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@austin.polstra.com) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA21978; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 10:11:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp) Message-Id: <199712051811.KAA21978@austin.polstra.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heads up: recent ld.so changes broke emacs In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 05 Dec 1997 08:30:09 +0100." <10740.881307009@critter.freebsd.dk> Date: Fri, 05 Dec 1997 10:11:38 -0800 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >that mean? It copies its address space out to a file, and fakes > >up an a.out header at the beginning of it so that the file can be > >executed directly. That file becomes the emacs that is installed. > > What happens to malloc's mmap'ed page-table ? There isn't one, because emacs contains its own malloc. :-) John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth