Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 17:41:20 -0800 From: "Mike O'Brien" <obrien@antares.aero.org> To: davidg@Root.COM Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>, jhay@mikom.csir.co.za, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: "Text file busy" with program not running anymore? Message-ID: <95Mar14.174156pst.111108-1@aero.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 05 Mar 1995 13:43:13 PST." <199503052143.NAA00266@corbin.Root.COM>
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David Greenman sez: > Actually, now that I think about > it, the thing to do is to shut off the VTEXT flag when the object reference > count goes to 0...I thought we already did that...but we don't. This should > completely solve the problem. I'll add it to my whiteboard. I realize I'm coming late to the table with this (I've been on vacation) but I should point out that this persistant caching was a deliberate choice on the part of the Berkeley design team. The notion was that it would greatly speed up the execution of common, short-lived binaries if their texts were gradually cached by the system. Mike O'Brien
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