Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!chinacat!sequoia!rpp386!jfh From: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II) Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: What does SUID, SGID and Sticky bits do on inappropriate files? Message-ID: <18870@rpp386.cactus.org> Date: 29 Dec 90 12:34:56 GMT References: <1990Dec28.234940.24202@odin.diku.dk> <1990Dec29.050330.3390@NCoast.ORG> Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II) Organization: Lone Star Cafe and BBS Service Lines: 14 X-Clever-Slogan: Recycle or Die. In article <1990Dec29.050330.3390@NCoast.ORG> allbery@ncoast.ORG.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) writes: >Even if it wasn't in memory, V7 built new process images (execve()) on swap, >so things were generally closer together that way. (But you already knew >that, right? The only reason I'm a "guru" is that there aren't many real ones >in northern Ohio.) More interestingly, the V7 swap space was all allocated contiguously so that a text image could be loaded with a single I/O operation. None of this wasteful paging mess with pages laying all over the place ;-) -- John F. Haugh II UUCP: ...!cs.utexas.edu!rpp386!jfh Ma Bell: (512) 832-8832 Domain: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org "While you are here, your wives and girlfriends are dating handsome American movie and TV stars. Stars like Tom Selleck, Bruce Willis, and Bart Simpson."