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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au!aggedor.rmit.EDU.AU!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!nigel.msen.com!math.fu-berlin.de!news.th-darmstadt.de!zib-berlin.de!easix!flyer.GUN.de!flatlin!bad From: bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura) Subject: Re: Notes on the *new* FreeBSD V1.1 VM system Date: Sat, 26 Feb 1994 22:59:01 GMT Message-ID: <CLut6D.4Fn@flatlin.ka.sub.org> References: <2ke3ss$l0d@u.cc.utah.edu> <Ja4p+zR.dysonj@delphi.com> <2khcvv$han@u.cc.utah.edu> <CLqK5I.IzH@ns1.nodak.edu> <wimlCLrCxo.Fvx@netcom.com> Organization: Guru Systems/Funware Department Lines: 14 In <wimlCLrCxo.Fvx@netcom.com> wiml@netcom.com (William Lewis) writes: >Why can't demand-paged executables act like any other open file? It might >be a good idea to keep processes from writing to a file that is >being used as someone's text segment, but is there anything wrong with >letting them *delete* it? Some (older) version of Unix got this right and let you delete a file that's being executed. C.f. the Bach book. -- Christoph Badura bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org +49 721 606137 Es genuegt nicht, keine Gedanken zu haben; man muss auch unfaehig sein, sie auszudruecken. - Karl Kraus