Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 18:34:11 -0700 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: "Andrew Reilly" <reilly@zeta.org.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF binaries size Message-ID: <199809020134.SAA16805@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 01 Sep 1998 18:28:14 -0000." <199809011828.SAA02547@dingo.cdrom.com>
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> > > No, we map both text and data read-only. > > > > No, the text is read-only and the data is copy-on-write. > > Is this an ELF requirement, or just an arbitrary change? I don't understand what you're getting at. A program has to be able to write its data. That's where the variables are. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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