... Thus I am proposing to look at demand paging from the file system. > If ... 's that for an offer? Seriously, adding demand-loading should be relatively easy. I wouldn ... use the routines already on hand (map() etc). Note that the "relatively easy" must ...

linux-activists - Linus Benedict Torvalds - Nov 17 1991 - 06:36

> 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