From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 2 21:39:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA14806 for current-outgoing; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 21:39:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA14801 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 21:39:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id WAA18246; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 22:33:48 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199604030533.WAA18246@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Huh? cc1 text file busy? To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 22:33:48 -0700 (MST) Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199604030029.JAA16572@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Apr 3, 96 09:59:45 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Yeah, you tried to overwrite the compiler while it was running. Bad Idea; > remember we page executables out of their files on disk, not out of swap. > > (We? Who am I kidding, it's JD and his bloody genius again 8) I think you'll find that it was standard practice, even for 386BSD 0.1, which is a Mach-derived VM. This is typical of overcommit architectures. JD has done lots of wonderful, innovative other stuff, though. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.