From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 29 6:41:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mk-smarthost-2.mail.uk.worldonline.com (mk-smarthost-2.mail.uk.worldonline.com [212.74.112.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4048137B400 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 06:41:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from [62.64.206.67] (helo=cream.org) by mk-smarthost-2.mail.uk.worldonline.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #3) id 16VZRi-000NWH-00; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 14:41:14 +0000 Message-ID: <3C56B494.5000809@cream.org> Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 14:41:24 +0000 From: Andrew Boothman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011120 X-Accept-Language: en-gb, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ronald G Minnich Cc: "DOROVSKOY,IGOR (A-Portsmouth,ex1)" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OS Textbook FreeBSD Appendix References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ronald G Minnich wrote: > >where'd they get this? that's an odd statement. Shared memory was used all >the time on Unix on -11s, that's the whole point of the shared text a.out >format. Of course shared read-only text is not exactly the standard shared >memory, but at the same time it shows feasibility. The address space was >so small though that other mechanisms were used. > Thanks to everyone for their comments! Despite the slight disagreement on this issue of shared memory, I think a link to this PDF is still worth including on the web site and it the programmer's manual. I'll see about getting this added sometime soon. Thanks again! Andrew. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message