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From: campbell@sauron.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Unix System V.3 (3B2) 0410 Object Support
Message-ID: <831@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: Thu, 26-Feb-87 11:46:41 EST
Article-I.D.: sauron.831
Posted: Thu Feb 26 11:46:41 1987
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Organization: Advanced Systems Development, NCR Corp., Columbia, SC
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Keywords: Unix, 0410, 0413, Executables

Looking through the 3B2 V.3 code, it appears to me that there exists a bug in
the handling of 0410 files (note: I realize that these are not the default).
If a 0410 file were exec'ed that had a text (or data) size that was larger
than physical memory but smaller than the swap space the exec would "hang"
forever.  This is due to the fact that the entire appropo section of the file
is read in at once in the kernel via "readi()".

If anyone knows of this problem, or knows that this *isn't* a problem, I'd
appreciate your letting me know.  Thanks.
-- 
						Mark Campbell
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