Re: Why *not* rmap, anyway?

[Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>]

On Tue, 7 May 2002, William Lee Irwin III wrote:

> Procedural interfaces to pagetable manipulations are largely what
> the BSD pmap and SVR4 HAT layers consisted of, no?

Indeed, but there is a difference between:

1) we need to get a proper interface

and

2) we should have 2 sets of data structures, one shadowing the other

I like (1), but have my doubts about (2) ...

cheers,

Rik
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