Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 07:55:22 -0700 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Handling page faults in user space ? Message-ID: <199810211455.HAA10975@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <199810210744.IAA09732@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> References: <199810210744.IAA09732@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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In article <199810210744.IAA09732@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>,
Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> wrote:
> i was wondering how to handle page faults/segment violations in user
> space. Looking at mmap, signal and friends it looks like it is almost
> possible.
Others have answered your question about how to do it. I'll just
confirm that it really does work. The Modula-3 runtime system relies
on it to support the incremental garbage collector.
John
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