Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 22:33:48 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Huh? cc1 text file busy? Message-ID: <199604030533.WAA18246@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199604030029.JAA16572@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Apr 3, 96 09:59:45 am
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> Yeah, you tried to overwrite the compiler while it was running. Bad Idea; > remember we page executables out of their files on disk, not out of swap. > > (We? Who am I kidding, it's JD and his bloody genius again 8) I think you'll find that it was standard practice, even for 386BSD 0.1, which is a Mach-derived VM. This is typical of overcommit architectures. JD has done lots of wonderful, innovative other stuff, though. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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