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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!


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