From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 14 15:27:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from lestat.nas.nasa.gov (lestat.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.50.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75E3E154EF for ; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 15:27:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov) Received: from lestat (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lestat.nas.nasa.gov (8.8.8/8.6.12) with ESMTP id PAA02757; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 15:27:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199907142227.PAA02757@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> To: Niall Smart Cc: Matthew Dillon , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2) Reply-To: Jason Thorpe From: Jason Thorpe Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 15:27:06 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 14 Jul 1999 12:43:07 +0000 Niall Smart wrote: > Perhaps it could be an additional flag to mmap, in this way > people wishing to run an overcommited system could do so > but those writing programs which must not overcommit for > certain memory allocations could ensure they did not do so. This has already been mentioned. SVR4 has MAP_NORESERVE specifcally for this purpose. -- Jason R. Thorpe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message