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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Path: sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!ictv!barry
- From: barry@ictv.com (Barry Lustig)
- Subject: NeXTs running 3.0 *cannot* swap to a raw partition
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.195003.6023@ictv.com>
- Sender: usenet@ictv.com
- Organization: ICTV, Santa Clara, CA (408) 562-9200
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:50:03 GMT
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- There has been speculation recently about whether a NeXT can swap to
- a raw partition or not. I decided to do a little research on this
- point and found out that you cannot. The reason for this should be
- clear from the following:
-
- Current directory is /
- Reading symbol data from sdmach...
- (no debugging symbols found)...done.
- (gdb) disassemble swapon
- Dump of assembler code for function swapon:
- 0x4068288 <swapon>: rts
- End of assembler dump.
- (gdb)
-
-
- NeXT removed the code for the swapon system call from the kernel.
- They would have made life a lot easier for people if they also removed
- the call from the system library.
-
-
- barry
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