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- Subject: Re: MiNT 1.10 re-sync
- Date: Sun, 12 Jun 1994 21:08:31 +0200 (MET DST)
- From: hohmuth@inf.tu-dresden.de (Michael Hohmuth)
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- Hi Juergen,
-
- thanks for your patches... I've applied all of them, except the last one
- (yet):
-
- > 6. and now the sticky text/fragmentation megapatch... does a few things:
-
- > . execv..() frees the old process memory before allocating the new ones,
- > and so no longer leaves holes in your memory map. this took a few
- > ugly hacks but i think its worth it :) the only visible change should
- > be when exec'ing a damaged binary the process gets killed, fixing that
- > would require reading executables twice.
-
- Well, that's fine with me, but I don't know whether this "non-posixish"
- behaviour is tolerable by all others? I guess so... as it effectively
- makes "damaged executable" equivalent to "executable crashed immediately
- after it has been run".
-
- Opinions?
-
- Michael
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