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Date:      Tue, 29 Jan 2002 14:41:24 +0000
From:      Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org>
To:        Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
Cc:        "DOROVSKOY,IGOR (A-Portsmouth,ex1)" <igor_dorovskoy@agilent.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: OS Textbook FreeBSD Appendix
Message-ID:  <3C56B494.5000809@cream.org>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201281546400.22257-100000@snaresland.acl.lanl.gov>

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Ronald G Minnich wrote:

>
>where'd they get this? that's an odd statement. Shared memory was used all
>the time on Unix on -11s, that's the whole point of the shared text a.out
>format. Of course shared read-only text is not exactly the standard shared
>memory, but at the same time it shows feasibility. The address space was
>so small though that other mechanisms were used.
>

Thanks to everyone for their comments! Despite the slight disagreement 
on this issue of shared memory, I think a link to this PDF is still 
worth including on the web site and it the programmer's manual.

I'll see about getting this added sometime soon.

Thanks again!

Andrew.



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