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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.sprintlink.net!news.inc.net!news.moneng.mei.com!news.ecn.bgu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.uoregon.edu!news.bc.net!info.ucla.edu!library.ucla.edu!zephyr!typhoon!jerijian From: jerijian@typhoon.seas.ucla.edu (Arthur D. Jerijian) Subject: Re: You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish Sender: news@seas.ucla.edu (News Daemon) Message-ID: <DDr2ty.E95@seas.ucla.edu> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 06:17:57 GMT Distribution: inet X-Nntp-Posting-Host: typhoon.seas.ucla.edu References: <405hjb$llr@news.jhu.edu> <4099s8$6ep@empire.texas.net> <x0n3d4d0yf.fsf@gemini.ee.ryerson.ca> Organization: GNAT's Not ArThur X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Lines: 22 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.sys.sun.admin:51731 comp.unix.solaris:44382 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:677 I found this interesting little blurb in the Linux kernel: /* * 'fork.c' contains the help-routines for the 'fork' system call * (see also system_call.s). * Fork is rather simple, once you get the hang of it, but the memory * management can be a bitch. See 'mm/mm.c': 'copy_page_tables()' */ ...and this one... /* vsprintf.c -- Lars Wirzenius & Linus Torvalds. */ /* * Wirzenius wrote this portably, Torvalds fucked it up :-) */ These have been around since Linux 0.01 and they still exist in Linux 1.2.13. --Arthur Jerijian jerijian@aixugrad.seas.ucla.edu