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From: arnold@emory.uucp (Arnold D. Robbins {EUCC})
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How do you find the user structure?
Message-ID: <3510@emory.uucp>
Date: 13 Dec 88 17:05:30 GMT
References: <13232@ncoast.UUCP> <309@lzaz.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: arnold@emory.UUCP (Arnold D. Robbins {EUCC})
Organization: Emory University
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In article <309@lzaz.ATT.COM> hutch@lzaz.ATT.COM (R.HUTCHISON) writes:
>I wonder if anyone has thought about making the handling of the user
>area portable in SVR4?  It seems to be quite different in every
>version I've looked at.  I assume that the reduction of
>machine-specific code is an objective for new releases, especially in
>the memory management area.

Won't /proc in SVR4 finally handle this right? The kernel knows where
the u block is, let the kernel get it for you.

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