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From: steve@gondor.UUCP (Stephen J. Williams)
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Subject: Re: Caching virtual addresses (was: How Many Virtual Spaces)
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Date: Tue, 22-Apr-86 23:43:25 EST
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>> How do you make sure that, whenever you re-use a process-id, all old
>> data is flushed from the cache?

Do this with the paging system.  Get a page fault for a page that was not
yet accessed by this page, and you give it a clean page.

--Scal