From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 22 02:57:57 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCB5016A4B3 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 02:57:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-234.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.234]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91DA643F93 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 02:57:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FAED66D88; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 02:57:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3D5EADAF; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 02:57:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 02:57:55 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Q Message-ID: <20031022095754.GA70026@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <1066789354.21430.39.camel@boxster.onthenet.com.au> <20031022082953.GA69506@rot13.obsecurity.org> <1066816287.25609.34.camel@boxster.onthenet.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="fdj2RfSjLxBAspz7" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1066816287.25609.34.camel@boxster.onthenet.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org cc: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: Some mmap observations compared to Linux 2.6/OpenBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 09:57:57 -0000 --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--