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From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com>
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Subject: Re: MIT SHM X11 extensions? (fwd)
To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 18:03:35 -0600 (CST)
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In-Reply-To: <9502101411.AA10760@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Feb 10, 95 07:11:20 am
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> Actually, you could fault the whole image to swap and close the
> reference to the file -- and just allow the write, with never an
> ETXTBUSY to be seen.

I consider the sudden explosion of swap utilization to be a surprising
consequence, especially considering the size of some images. When you're
writing to an image you're likely replacing it with "install" anyway.
Let "install" detect the ETXTBSY and do a little shuffle.