From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 7 4:56: 4 2000 From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 7 04:56:03 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C22A37B400 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 04:55:59 -0800 (PST) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA33823; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 13:55:33 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Sender: des@ofug.org X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: remy@boostworks.com Cc: dillon@earth.backplane.com, phk@critter.freebsd.dk, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: free() not freing pagedirs pages. References: <200012071200.NAA35634@luxren2.boostworks.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 07 Dec 2000 13:55:33 +0100 In-Reply-To: Remy Nonnenmacher's message of "Thu, 7 Dec 2000 12:59:55 +0100 (CET)" Message-ID: Lines: 11 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Remy Nonnenmacher writes: > Well, I may think using this solution if it remains portable between > Unixes. It's perfectly portable, with one small variation - on BSD systems, you pass -1 instead of a file descriptor, while on SysV systems, you pass a descriptor to /dev/zero (or was it /dev/null?) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message