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From: bengsig@oracle.nl (Bjorn Engsig)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: tcsh for RISC6000, AIX 3.1?
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Date: 25 Sep 90 11:19:49 GMT
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Article <6339@hub.ucsb.edu> by 3003jalp@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Applied Magnetics) says:
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|On the Unix boxes that I know, there is no practical way to release
|paging space back to the OS.
Except telling the user nicely that there is a problem, close files, do a nice
shutdown, and exit(0).  This might of courese be too time consuming, so there
is also _exit(1). (== kill(getpid(),9) :-)
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