Return to BSD News archive
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!mojo.eng.umd.edu!pandora.pix.com!stripes
From: stripes@pix.com (Josh Osborne)
Subject: Re: Shared Libs for X11?, was Re: 386bsd -- The New Newsgroup
Message-ID: <BunBCI.G1t@pix.com>
Sender: news@pix.com (The News Subsystem)
Nntp-Posting-Host: pandora.pix.com
Organization: Pix Technologies -- The company with no adult supervision
References: <1992Sep14.232949.9093@bby.com.au> <veit.716561866@du9ds3> <1992Sep15.143458.15689@news.cs.brandeis.edu>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 00:43:29 GMT
Lines: 15
In article <1992Sep15.143458.15689@news.cs.brandeis.edu> st923150@pip.cc.brandeis.edu writes:
>[...] A small kernel extension may be needed to alias the text
>segment to a r/w data segment (as Intel text segments are either execute only
>or execute/read, but not e/r/w).
The same RAM can (and IS) mapped by more then one segment. As far as I can
tell the default CS and DS point to the same RAM, so that shouldn't be a
problem.
[...]
--
stripes@pix.com "Security for Unix is like
Josh_Osborne@Real_World,The Multitasking for MS-DOS"
"The dyslexic porgramer" - Kevin Lockwood
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on
when it's necessary to compromise. - Larry Wall