Date: Sat, 15 Jul 1995 07:28:27 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Cc: 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: <199507151428.HAA00567@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 15 Jul 95 07:25:01 PDT." <199507151425.HAA04688@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
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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 :-(. No, _definately_ not. We would sooner scrap 2.1R completely. -DG
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