From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 26 11:13:31 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3C1F37B401 for ; Mon, 26 May 2003 11:13:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from saga17.Stanford.EDU (saga17.Stanford.EDU [171.64.15.147]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B5F643F93 for ; Mon, 26 May 2003 11:13:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedu@stanford.edu) Received: from localhost (tedu@localhost) by saga17.Stanford.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h4QIDRQj001318; Mon, 26 May 2003 11:13:27 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: saga17.Stanford.EDU: tedu owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 11:13:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Ted Unangst To: Terry Lambert In-Reply-To: <3ED1E041.8ABA63A2@mindspring.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Change request for mount_null manpage X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 18:13:32 -0000 On Mon, 26 May 2003, Terry Lambert wrote: > Making connections via TCP will also prevent Netscape or > Mozilla from eating all your memory for bitmaps, which are > not cached on a window basis, so you basically "leak" them > until you exit the application and it loses its connection > to the X Server, if you use a local connection, which lets > it use the shared memory extension. off topic, but this caught my eye. can you clarify what you mean? maybe using two sentences? :) -- "People blame me because these water mains break, but I ask you, if the water mains didn't break, would it be my responsibility to fix them then? WOULD IT!?!" - M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC