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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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