From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 1 18:35:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA08861 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 18:35:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA08847 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 18:35:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@austin.polstra.com) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA16805; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 18:34:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp) Message-Id: <199809020134.SAA16805@austin.polstra.com> To: Mike Smith cc: "Andrew Reilly" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF binaries size In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 01 Sep 1998 18:28:14 -0000." <199809011828.SAA02547@dingo.cdrom.com> Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 18:34:11 -0700 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > 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