From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 7 10:04:30 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id KAA00852 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 7 Feb 1995 10:04:30 -0800 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA00846 for ; Tue, 7 Feb 1995 10:04:28 -0800 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA11894; Tue, 7 Feb 95 09:31:18 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9502071631.AA11894@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: MIT SHM X11 extensions? (fwd) To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Tue, 7 Feb 95 9:31:17 MST Cc: jmb@kryten.atinc.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199502070506.VAA00830@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Feb 6, 95 09:06:58 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >Or did you think I was talking about the VTEXT flag being set on the kernel > >vnode? > > How could I have thought any different??? That **was** what we were talking > about. Ah. You missed that the VTEXT flag appeared in a discussion of the origin of the "mv, don't cp the kernel" legend. I was explaining the origin of the legend, and refuting it for the kernel, while showing why it could still be a problem elsewhere. That is, "every legened has a basis in fact". Good to know that I'm not going insane. 8-). Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.