From owner-freebsd-current Fri Apr 16 6:31:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from phk.freebsd.dk (phk.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 334C515472 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 1999 06:31:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by phk.freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA09525; Fri, 16 Apr 1999 15:28:53 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id PAA03193; Fri, 16 Apr 1999 15:28:49 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Lowell Gilbert Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: swap on Irix (overcommiting, etc.) In-reply-to: Your message of "16 Apr 1999 09:09:09 EDT." Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 15:28:49 +0200 Message-ID: <3191.924269329@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Lowell Gilbert writes: >Mikhail Teterin 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