From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Y21C Bug
Date: 2000/01/06
Date: 2000-01-06T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2000Jan6.141127.1@eisner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wcc66x7w220.fsf@world.std.com
In article <wcc66x7w220.fsf@world.std.com>, Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com> writes:
> Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> writes:
>
>> 1. The ability to declare very large areas of memory with
>> commit-on-use semantics. There are many uses of this. I have
>> the feeling that a lot of programmers still don't understand
>> commit-on-use.
>
> Commit on use is indeed very cool.
>
> Do you know which operating systems support it?
If by "use" you mean "write", a VMS demand-zero page would seem
close to what you are looking for. Having been near a Unix programmer
trying to deal with memory mapping, I gather Unix systems can do the
same sorts of things, but using different calls for each brand of Unix.
Larry Kilgallen
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Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-01-02 0:00 Y21C Bug reason67
2000-01-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Georg Bauhaus
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Al Christians
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-04 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-02-04 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-02-04 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-01-11 0:00 ` Mats Weber
2000-01-11 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-12 0:00 ` Mats Weber
2000-01-12 0:00 ` Thierry Lelegard
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Mats Weber
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Thierry Lelegard
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
[not found] ` <387dfb1e.cbbf14c7@mail.com>
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-01-11 0:00 ` Mats Weber
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Y21C Bug :-) Charles Hixson
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Y21C Bug Robert Dewar
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Jeff Creem
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
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