Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 20:01:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jas@flyingfox.com (Jim Shankland) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Custom init(8) (and some ideas) Message-ID: <199802092001.NAA29822@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199802091806.KAA18225@biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com> from "Jim Shankland" at Feb 9, 98 10:06:52 am
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> On a related note, I did not understand the distinction between > mmap-ing the text section and "execute-in-place." If someone could > expand briefly, I'd appreciate it. In the first case, there is a backing object, so the pages can be discarded and recovered later to make room for dirty pages. In the second case, the backing object is compressed, and the pages are generated from decompressing the *entire* backing object, and appear as dirty pages (which can not be discarded, and some of which are never used). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe current" in the body of the message
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