From owner-freebsd-hackers  Tue Jul 13 16:28:46 1999
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To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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Subject: Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2) 
Reply-To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 16:27:11 -0700
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On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 16:16:07 -0700 
 Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> wrote:

 > Matt's point, which he's not making by virtue of talking too much, is 
 > that you can't make a "no overcommit" system behave like an "overcommit"
 > system, and most people are used to the sort of things that the latter 
 > makes practical.

That's just silly.  If people want a no-overcommit system, they have it,
and if they don't, they have that, too.

That's why you make it a switch.  No, really, you *can* just make it
a switch.

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>



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