From owner-freebsd-hackers  Wed Jul 14 15:31:59 1999
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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: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 15:30:48 -0700
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On Thu, 15 Jul 1999 01:59:12 +0900 
 "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> wrote:

 > > That's why you make it a switch.  No, really, you *can* just make it
 > > a switch.
 > 
 > So, enlighten me, please... how do you switch it in NetBSD?

When the code to do it is implemented (not that hard, really, and it is
in the list of things to do with UVM), a sysctl will enable/disable
overcommit checking.  There would be like 4 or 5 places in the code
where this boolean switch would have to be tested.

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



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