Re: Capabilities

[Alan Cox]

> Good points.  If we stayed restricted to large code segments only, however,
> then we could run much larger programs (like the bcc compiler, for one),
> if we restricted ourselves to the following:

bcc fitted in 64K on Minix built with ack so thats a BCC problem ...

>       o Dont' swap code that has the multi-code segment bit set in the exe hdr.
> (This isn't that big a deal, especially if it lets us run real programs...)

Its a very big deal

>       o Fork isn't a problem if we use shared code segments, and don't have
> far data pointers.

Thats the only bit I suspect is true