> The right way to do this is to add an floating-point emulator in >the kernel, even if shared libraries are added. This is a real b**ch. >I'll probably take a look at the djgpp package, but I'd really rather do >it myself (it's an interesting

linux-activists - Theodore Ts'o - Nov 17 1991 - 23:47

Linus: >Re: sticky bits, shared text... >I don't like sticky bits (in the meaning that they lock something into >memory). I doubt it's really that useful on a small machine, that is >essentially single-user. It's easy to grow the cache to 6M or more ...

linux-activists - Bruce Evans - Nov 18 1991 - 02:09