Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 15:28:49 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: swap on Irix (overcommiting, etc.) Message-ID: <3191.924269329@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "16 Apr 1999 09:09:09 EDT." <rd6btgozp8q.fsf@world.std.com>
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In message <rd6btgozp8q.fsf@world.std.com>, Lowell Gilbert writes: >Mikhail Teterin <mi@misha.cisco.com> writes: > >> 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... > >[...] Heck, the >*existence* of kill(1) and SIGKILL would be enough to make for a >non-conforming C environment. See RFC 748 for more details. Please let this thread die now. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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