Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 14:38:35 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@unixhelp.org> Cc: Amol Mohite <amol2@m-net.arbornet.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: environment strings Message-ID: <19990630143835.Y85121@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906290554280.19237-100000@janus.syracuse.net>; from Brian F. Feldman on Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 05:56:37AM -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906290547090.19237-100000@janus.syracuse.net> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906290554280.19237-100000@janus.syracuse.net>
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On Tuesday, 29 June 1999 at 5:56:37 -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > >> >> That's not true, Greg. I'm sure you of all people know that it (the >> composition of address space) is described in "The Design and >> Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System," even if things >> are slightly different in FreeBSD of today (especially addresses.) > > Should we expect to see something similar in the next revision of > your book? Assuming you're talking about "The Complete FreeBSD", I don't think so. As I mentioned, it's already in "Porting UNIX Software". > Describing this would be nice, because lots of people get curious > about this :) You may be overstating the case. CFBSD is about FreeBSD, not UNIX in general, and every UNIX flavour since the 7th Edition has this arrangement. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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