Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 23:41:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Jason Alan Nordwick <nordwick@graft.xcf.berkeley.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: more kernel/libc questions. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971012233913.9609T-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199710060447.VAA19396@graft.xcf.berkeley.edu>
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On Sun, 5 Oct 1997, Jason Alan Nordwick wrote: > if not then where is the user level version of open ? open is in libc. See open(2). > what does brk/sbrk do in terms of the vm structures ? This bit on the brk(2) man page implies to me that they don't do anything useful: The brk and sbrk functions are historical curiosities left over from ear- lier days before the advent of virtual memory management. > where is the code for it ? In the kernel. I probably shouldn't be answering these, it probably belongs in hackers@freebsd.org. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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