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| author | Thomas Schwinge <tschwinge@gnu.org> | 2011-10-03 20:49:54 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Schwinge <tschwinge@gnu.org> | 2011-10-03 20:49:54 +0200 |
| commit | 219988e74ba30498a1c5d71cf557913a70ccca91 (patch) | |
| tree | 56b85456808cd06e020ef8455ea123c58f624176 /open_issues/mach-defpager_vs_defpager.mdwn | |
| parent | 278f76de415c83bd06146b2f25a002cf0411d025 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/open_issues/mach-defpager_vs_defpager.mdwn b/open_issues/mach-defpager_vs_defpager.mdwn index d6976706..f03bc67f 100644 --- a/open_issues/mach-defpager_vs_defpager.mdwn +++ b/open_issues/mach-defpager_vs_defpager.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this @@ -10,16 +10,24 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!tag open_issue_gnumach open_issue_hurd]] -\#hurd, 2010, end of May / beginning of June +IRC, freenode, #hurd, end of May/beginning of June 2010 <cfhammar> whats the difference between mach-defpager and defpager? - <cfhammar> i'm guessing defpager is a hurdish version that uses libstore but was never finished or something - <cfhammar> found an interesting thread about it: http://mirror.libre.fm/hurd/list/msg01232.html + <cfhammar> i'm guessing defpager is a hurdish version that uses libstore + but was never finished or something + <cfhammar> found an interesting thread about it: + http://mirror.libre.fm/hurd/list/msg01232.html <slpz> antrik: an interesting thread, indeed :-) - <pochu> slpz: btw is mach-defpager linked statically but not called mach-defpager.static on purpose? - <slpz> antrik: also, I can confirm that mach-defpager needs a complete rewrite ;-) + <pochu> slpz: btw is mach-defpager linked statically but not called + mach-defpager.static on purpose? + <slpz> antrik: also, I can confirm that mach-defpager needs a complete + rewrite ;-) <slpz> pochu: I think the original defpager was launched by serverboot <slpz> pochu: that could be the reason to have it static, like ext2fs - <slpz> and since there's no need to execute it again during the normal operation of the system, they probably decided to not create a dynamically linked version + <slpz> and since there's no need to execute it again during the normal + operation of the system, they probably decided to not create a + dynamically linked version <slpz> (but I'm just guessing) - <slpz> of perhaps they wanted to prevent mach-defpager from the need of reading libraries, since it's used when memory is really scarce (guessing again) + <slpz> of perhaps they wanted to prevent mach-defpager from the need of + reading libraries, since it's used when memory is really scarce (guessing + again) |