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Date:      Sun, 16 Jul 1995 18:37:12 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Cc:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Subject:   Re: XFree86 and swap
Message-ID:  <199507161637.SAA20875@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199507161414.XAA01095@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Jul 16, 95 11:44:20 pm

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As Michael Smith wrote:
> 
> Processes can only ever grow, they can never shrink.

At least since V7, processes can also shrink.  See the HISTORY section
of brk(2).

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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