Re: Ideas for memory management hackers.

Moshe Zadka (moshez@ladybug.org.il)
Fri, 14 Nov 1997 17:23:35 +0200

On Fri, Nov 14, 1997 at 03:58:09PM +0100, Alexander Kjeldaas wrote:
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> 4. Implement madvise(). From the NetBSD 1.2 man-page:
<snipped man-page>

IMHO, a better design would be to set the behavior at the time
the memory is requested. I.e., a syscall alternative to brk, with
another argument of behavior. 

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