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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: getdtablesize() broken?
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Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 17:06:17 -0700 (MST)
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> >> about the memory-fragmentation issues which mandate the use of a
> >> separate VM submap to hold this data while it is being staged between
> >> the old process and the new process.
> >
> >BZZZZT!  Replace the enviornment with logical names and hang the logical
> >name table off the proc struct instead of copying it like this and it
> >won't *need* to be staged.  Bye bye, staging area.  Mark the environment
> >as a shared copy-on-modification structure.
> 
> BZZZZT! Not if you want argv[] to work. We're not talking about just the
> environment variables.

Damn.  I thought this was for envp.  8-(.

Never mind on that one, then.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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