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To: julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
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Subject: Re: install compressed binary patch 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 14 Mar 95 14:45:22 PST."
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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 95 16:56:55 -0800
From: Bakul Shah <bakul@netcom.com>
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> we pull a page in from the compressed file... (or even non compressed)
> the page get's swapped out.. (obviously NOT to the file..)
> therefore there are already two entities being tracked by the kernel..
> I assume we could extend this so that the swap object has the entire
> uncompressed version of the file?

This will be tricky to get right.  On the other hand the
user mode solution requires no changes to the kernel and
should work on any system that claims to be Unix!