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List:       freebsd-hackers
Subject:    Re: environment strings
From:       Greg Lehey <grog () lemis ! com>
Date:       1999-06-30 5:20:35
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On Tuesday, 29 June 1999 at  5:56:37 -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote:
>
>>
>> That's not true, Greg. I'm sure you of all people know that it (the
>> composition of address space) is described in "The Design and
>> Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System," even if things
>> are slightly different in FreeBSD of today (especially addresses.)
>
> Should we expect to see something similar in the next revision of
> your book?

Assuming you're talking about "The Complete FreeBSD", I don't think
so.  As I mentioned, it's already in "Porting UNIX Software".

> Describing this would be nice, because lots of people get curious
> about this :)

You may be overstating the case.  CFBSD is about FreeBSD, not UNIX in
general, and every UNIX flavour since the 7th Edition has this
arrangement.

Greg
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