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Date:      Wed, 18 Oct 1995 17:06:17 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        davidg@root.com
Cc:        terry@lambert.org, wollman@lcs.mit.edu, bde@zeta.org.au, bakul@netcom.com, current@freefall.freebsd.org, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: getdtablesize() broken?
Message-ID:  <199510190006.RAA01335@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199510182230.PAA29572@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Oct 18, 95 03:30:06 pm

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> >> about the memory-fragmentation issues which mandate the use of a
> >> separate VM submap to hold this data while it is being staged between
> >> the old process and the new process.
> >
> >BZZZZT!  Replace the enviornment with logical names and hang the logical
> >name table off the proc struct instead of copying it like this and it
> >won't *need* to be staged.  Bye bye, staging area.  Mark the environment
> >as a shared copy-on-modification structure.
> 
> BZZZZT! Not if you want argv[] to work. We're not talking about just the
> environment variables.

Damn.  I thought this was for envp.  8-(.

Never mind on that one, then.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.



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