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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (peter da silva)
Subject: Re: Adding fire to the segmentation flamefest...
Message-ID: <EUWAT74@xds13.ferranti.com>
Keywords: segments: do they really suck?
Organization: Ferranti International Controls Corporation
References: <1991Apr18.163123.21963@sctc.com>
Distribution: comp
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 91 13:39:09 GMT

In article <1991Apr18.163123.21963@sctc.com>, beede@sctc.com (Mike Beede) writes:
> What about two processes that want to share a segment containing
> in-segment pointers?  Would be pretty nice if the segments didn't have
> to be mapped at the same location for both processes, wouldn't it?

Well, it'd be a little more convenient I guess. With all that address space,
though, you could do what *I* dream of: put all programs into a common
address space. This would speed message-passing, and solve all the problems
of pointers in shared memory.  You would have to deal with non-contiguous
address space within a process, but that's a given in this discussion anyway.
-- 
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