Re: AIX disclaim() or Tru64 madvise (MADV_DONTNEED) needed
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
20 Aug 1999 21:24:18 GMT
Followup to: <Pine.A32.3.95.990820175549.41418C-100000@werner.exp-math.uni-essen.de>
By author: "Dr. Michael Weller" <eowmob@exp-math.uni-essen.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> > Also we are not able to change the general implementation of the R/3
> > kernel, but have to choose between several given options.
>
> Now this is an interesting concept ;-) . Porting an application to a new
> OS by modifying the new OS so much that no porting is possible.
>
Not necessarily a bad way of doing it, either... X386 was originally
ported to Linux largely by adding missing functionality to Linux.
-hpa
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