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Date:      Wed, 30 Jun 1999 14:38:35 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        "Brian F. Feldman" <green@unixhelp.org>
Cc:        Amol Mohite <amol2@m-net.arbornet.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: environment strings
Message-ID:  <19990630143835.Y85121@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906290554280.19237-100000@janus.syracuse.net>; from Brian F. Feldman on Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 05:56:37AM -0400
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On Tuesday, 29 June 1999 at  5:56:37 -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote:
>
>>
>> That's not true, Greg. I'm sure you of all people know that it (the
>> composition of address space) is described in "The Design and
>> Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System," even if things
>> are slightly different in FreeBSD of today (especially addresses.)
>
> Should we expect to see something similar in the next revision of
> your book?

Assuming you're talking about "The Complete FreeBSD", I don't think
so.  As I mentioned, it's already in "Porting UNIX Software".

> Describing this would be nice, because lots of people get curious
> about this :)

You may be overstating the case.  CFBSD is about FreeBSD, not UNIX in
general, and every UNIX flavour since the 7th Edition has this
arrangement.

Greg
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