Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 15:34:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@misha.cisco.com> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: swap on Irix (overcommiting, etc.) Message-ID: <199904151934.PAA98792@misha.cisco.com>
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Chuck Robey once wrote: > This is the part that gets me. You keep claiming ANSI C > non-compliance, and we are compliant. If you want to claim > non-compliance, then get out the spec and quote chapter and verse. > There is nothing in the spec that says how the underlying OS has to > treat processes on a global scale. Sorry. I'm just repeating what Ladavac Marino wrote in <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C11002761795EB@r-lmh-wi-100.corpnet.at>: LM: Please note that memory overcommit architectures are a LM: rather common optimization; FreeBSD is one of them. They LM: do, however, break the ISO/ANSI C conformance (strictly LM: speaking). Since there was no immediate (nor later) rebuttal, I assumed, that everyone quietly agreed... -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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