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From: maurice@nmtvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: memory management primitives availability in 4.2BSD
Message-ID: <409@nmtvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 11-Apr-85 14:35:08 EST
Article-I.D.: nmtvax.409
Posted: Thu Apr 11 14:35:08 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 15-Apr-85 04:01:50 EST
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Reply-To: maurice@nmtvax.UUCP (Roger M. Levasseur)
Organization: New Mexico Tech, Socorro
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Summary: 

>We just installed a release of 4.2BSD dated Nov 2, 1983 on our VAX and
>were disappointed to find that the memory management primitives (mmap, mremap,
>munmap, mprotect, etc.) are not , apparently, included for programmer use.
>
>Can anyone tell me wh  how to get a version of 4.2BSD that contains
>the memory management primitives? What release of 4.2BSD??
>

   You don't. If you look very closely at the 4.2 System Manual which
tells about the facilities provided by 4.2BSD, and look at the footnotes
at the bottom of the various pages, it says in part, these calls
are *planned* for later releases of the system. 


  Roger M Levasseur
  unmvax!nmtvax!maurice