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From: SA44@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK (Kevin Maguire)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: 1.5.10 working on mc68000
Message-ID: <90145.125837SA44@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK>
Date: 25 May 90 11:58:37 GMT
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In article <20176@nigel.udel.EDU>, HBO043%DJUKFA11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
(Christoph van Wuellen) says:
>At the moment, I use the old commands, but why do they need so much
>memory: I increased the heap space for /etc/mount from 2000 to 10000 bytes,
>and that was not enough, with 20000 bytes, it works!
>Does anyone know why the same binary needs so much more memory?
>Christoph van Wuellen.

Yeah, the new mount maintains a file /etc/mtab which holds the names of
all the currently mounted devices. I can remember right now exactly how
it manages that file, but my guess it reads it completely into a buffer
modifies it and writes it out again?
This of course requires more bytes :-)

Kevin Maguire

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