At 11:45 AM -0800 2/19/00, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>* Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000219 02:22] wrote:
> > I remeber being a newbie and getting burned by the need to explicitly
> > turn a line 'off' in my /etc/ttys file instead of simply deleting it.
> >
> > This fixes it using a trivial mark then collect sweep.
> >
> > Can a couple people take a look? I'd like to get it into 4.0 because
> > it seems to follow POLA better.
> >
> > "hey i deleted and HUP'd but init keeps spawing them!"
>
>ok, NetBSD has had this fixed for _several years_, and they use bitmasks
>in the se_flags field, here's an updated patch that's essentially the
>same as the old one but using NetBSD's se_flags implementation.
>
>4.0 please? :)
For what it's worth, I like this idea. I must admit I have not tested
it, because the disk I was *going* to use to build a 4.0 system seems
to be utterly dead right now (hardware-wise). Sigh.
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