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diff --git a/open_issues/mach-defpager_vs_defpager.mdwn b/open_issues/mach-defpager_vs_defpager.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index f03bc67f..00000000 --- a/open_issues/mach-defpager_vs_defpager.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,33 +0,0 @@ -[[!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 -document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or -any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant -Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license -is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation -License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] - -[[!tag open_issue_gnumach open_issue_hurd]] - -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 - <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 ;-) - <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> (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) |