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From: norskog@fortune.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.bugs.v7
Subject: Shared Text Swap Bugs - (nf)
Message-ID: <2340@fortune.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23-Jan-84 19:02:20 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 23 19:02:20 1984
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fortune!norskog    Jan 23 13:32:00 1984

The shared text implementation (kernel/sys/text.c) in V7,
SysIII, & SysV has swap bugs.  Has anyone fixed the one where
you have many copies of one program active, enough to cause
each other to swap out, and the system just locks up
at a high interrupt level?


Lance C. Norskog
Fortune Systems, 101 Twin Dolphin Drive, Redwood City, CA
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