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- From: mustang@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Paul Christopher Miranda (I love Cheese))
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Why doesn't Amiga core-dump? *sigh*
- Summary: someday
- Message-ID: <83896@ut-emx.uucp>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 21:01:09 GMT
- References: <BxL1K6.CnG@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1e0q1kINN7eu@uni-paderborn.de>
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- In article <1e0q1kINN7eu@uni-paderborn.de> tron@uni-paderborn.de (Matthias Scheler) writes:
- >In article <BxL1K6.CnG@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu (Sam Hulick) writes:
- >|>
- >|> Just a question.. why don't Amigas coredump like UNIX? Why do they
- >Core-Dumping is not the main point. I suppress core dumping, because I don't
- >like this 8 MB files in my home dir and Unix still crashes. The thing that
- >requires advanced hardware (a Memory Management Unit) which most Amigas don't
- >have. The OS must be designed for this e.g. NO public structures. But there
- >are LOTS of public structures in AmigaOS, e.g. the shared libraries.
- >Matthias Scheler tron@uni-paderborn.de
- >University of Paderborn (Germany)
-
- First of all.. you can limit the size of the core dumps in all unixes (sp?)
- I have seen so that's not much of an issue..
- The best solution would be to dump the contents of all memory that the program
- in question had allocated.. (I believe this is the intention of unix machines)
- I have an 030 and would like to have this feature.. something like GOMF would
- be easily capable of it.. If it can ID and de-allocate memory from a dead task
- it certainly should be able to dump it to a file.. of course the idea is to
- have the OS do it for you... As for public memory.. if it is public.. allocate
- it as public, if you want it private, you should be able to specify it in the
- allocation call (from a programming point of view). unfortunately this requires
- the change of existing software.. but it's worth it.. they will need to change
- to use VM anyway.. and the system could have a file of programs that are or
- are not allowed to access other task's memory (or be accessed).. I don't recall
- hearing anything about virii on Memory-Protected OSes (ie.. unix)
-
- enough of me...
-
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