Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 02:57:55 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Q <q_dolan@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Some mmap observations compared to Linux 2.6/OpenBSD Message-ID: <20031022095754.GA70026@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <1066816287.25609.34.camel@boxster.onthenet.com.au> References: <1066789354.21430.39.camel@boxster.onthenet.com.au> <20031022082953.GA69506@rot13.obsecurity.org> <1066816287.25609.34.camel@boxster.onthenet.com.au>
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--fdj2RfSjLxBAspz7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 07:51:28PM +1000, Q wrote: > Thanks, I have already looked over the repositories to determine how > they differed. I wasn't really asking about the history of these changes > in the other projects, but rather the history of why FreeBSD HASN'T also > gone down this road. There doesn't appear to be anything in CVS or the > mail archives that I can find that would indicate any intention to > change the current implementation. I'm assuming that FreeBSD has some version of the historical BSD implementation, and the change was made in OpenBSD (or perhaps NetBSD before the split), and it has not been considered before in FreeBSD. I have no familiarity with the code in question, however. Kris --fdj2RfSjLxBAspz7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/llSiWry0BWjoQKURAvQpAKDvzPtwQ1bTWrrMwDGq2tn2RnkuQgCgs+iq ysfssp13WeNBE44VMHSTUdQ= =721Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --fdj2RfSjLxBAspz7--
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