From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 29 22: 9: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8D83154BF for ; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 22:08:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA27161; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 14:38:41 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id OAA74422; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 14:38:35 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 14:38:35 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Brian F. Feldman" Cc: Amol Mohite , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: environment strings Message-ID: <19990630143835.Y85121@freebie.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Brian F. Feldman on Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 05:56:37AM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 29 June 1999 at 5:56:37 -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > >> >> That's not true, Greg. I'm sure you of all people know that it (the >> composition of address space) is described in "The Design and >> Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System," even if things >> are slightly different in FreeBSD of today (especially addresses.) > > Should we expect to see something similar in the next revision of > your book? Assuming you're talking about "The Complete FreeBSD", I don't think so. As I mentioned, it's already in "Porting UNIX Software". > Describing this would be nice, because lots of people get curious > about this :) You may be overstating the case. CFBSD is about FreeBSD, not UNIX in general, and every UNIX flavour since the 7th Edition has this arrangement. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message