From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 28 02:01:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA13638 for current-outgoing; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 02:01:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.tfs.com ([140.145.230.252]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA13623; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 02:00:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.tfs.com (localhost.tfs.com [127.0.0.1]) by critter.tfs.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA00764; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 09:27:36 +0200 (MET DST) To: Michael Smith cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), terry@lambert.org, stesin@gu.kiev.ua, angio@aros.net, squid-users@nlanr.net, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD malloc.c, -lmalloc, and squid. In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 28 Aug 1996 12:59:41 +0930." <199608280329.MAA10965@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 09:27:36 +0200 Message-ID: <762.841217256@critter.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199608280329.MAA10965@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, Michael Smith writes: >Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: >> > >> > You can do it system wide: >> > ln -s 'H<<' /etc/default/malloc >> >> Aieee! Another file in /etc! sysctl! sysctl! :-) > >Time to take Terry up on his logicals concept. Anyone familiar enough with >the way that VMS handles/d these willing to talk for a while on it? I >seem to recall that you could create logicals on a system-wide basis as >well as per-session (or was that per-user?) > >There should be a way to integrate this with sysctl so that what are >currently sysctl variables become system-wide logicals with little or >no effective change, but the concept is extended to per-process group >(kinda like the environment), or summat similar. It's on it's way, I have a prototype "registry" on it's way, that would search, in order: process, session, uid, system trees for the variable. For now just live with the hack ok ? I havn't even committed this change to malloc, it's just for testing, OK ??? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.