From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 8 14:34:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA14578 for current-outgoing; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 14:34:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA14571; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 14:34:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA18652; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 15:33:58 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd018632; Sun Feb 8 15:33:53 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA20965; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 15:33:45 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199802082233.PAA20965@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Custom init(8) (and some ideas) To: dima@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru (Dmitrij Tejblum) Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 22:33:45 +0000 (GMT) Cc: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, mike@smith.net.au, abial@nask.pl, tlambert@primenet.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199802081336.QAA15578@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru> from "Dmitrij Tejblum" at Feb 8, 98 04:36:12 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Also, (unpacked) .text section of gzipped binaries is not shared among > several copies of same program, like in case of normal program. If I > understand correctly, this is a big problem for Andrzej, since all his > program is crunched together. > > If text and data were gzipped separately, the life, probably, could be > easier. The pager approach would fix this as ell, though Mike is right about needing to keep a list around. Fundamentally, it's no different than trying to allw mmap's of files on an audio CD (the disk blocks are not some multiple of 512, and therefore not some factor of 4k, the page size). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe current" in the body of the message