From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 22 02:51:35 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 7344816A4B3 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 02:51:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp018.mail.yahoo.com (smtp018.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.115]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DA55A43FD7 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 02:51:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from q_dolan@yahoo.com.au) Received: from q.onthenet.com.au (HELO ?192.168.100.154?) (q?dolan@203.10.89.214 with plain) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 22 Oct 2003 09:51:34 -0000 From: Q To: Kris Kennaway In-Reply-To: <20031022082953.GA69506@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <1066789354.21430.39.camel@boxster.onthenet.com.au> <20031022082953.GA69506@rot13.obsecurity.org> Message-Id: <1066816287.25609.34.camel@boxster.onthenet.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 19:51:28 +1000 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some mmap observations compared to Linux 2.6/OpenBSD 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: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 09:51:35 -0000 Thanks, I have already looked over the repositories to determine how they differed. I wasn't really asking about the history of these changes in the other projects, but rather the history of why FreeBSD HASN'T also gone down this road. There doesn't appear to be anything in CVS or the mail archives that I can find that would indicate any intention to change the current implementation. Seeya...Q On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 18:29, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 12:22:35PM +1000, Q wrote: > > > Can someone comment on whether this is something that has been done > > intentionally, or avoided in favour of some other yet to be implemented > > solution? Or is it still on someones todo list. > > You can consult the FreeBSD and OpenBSD CVS repositories > (http://cvsweb.freebsd.org, the equivalent OpenBSD URL is listed on > their website) to find the history of this code. I don't know if > there is any Linux source history browser because of the historical > lack of published revision control files for the kernel. > > Kris