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Date:      Sat, 15 Jul 1995 07:25:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        davidg@Root.COM
Cc:        bde@zeta.org.au, CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-sys@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm device_pager.c device_pager.h kern_lock.c lock.h swap_pager.c swap_pager.h vm.h vm_extern.h vm_fault.
Message-ID:  <199507151425.HAA04688@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <199507151422.HAA00524@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Jul 15, 95 07:22:47 am

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> 
> >with kernels from just before the vm changes.  The padding in struct
> >proc became useless when the vm structures were changed, but perhaps it
> >should be restored together with some vm padding so that the changes
> >aren't visible in applications.
> 
>    I went down that road originally, but there were too many affected data
> structures, so I decided it wasn't worth all the padding hacks. I instead
> decided to remove the padding hacks that were already there.

I hope there are no intentions of bringing this code into 2.1, as breaking
compatibility with 2.0.5 would be a really bad thing to do to the
user base :-(.


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Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
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