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- From: dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer
- Subject: Re: Keeping data from swapping
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- Message-ID: <dillon.0rim@overload.Berkeley.CA.US>
- References: <1992Oct28.075558.2721@relief.com> <1992Oct29.071919.26859@u.washington.edu> <dillon.0qiu@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> <Bx2D2p.71B@research.canon.oz.au>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 11:13:32 PST
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- In article <Bx2D2p.71B@research.canon.oz.au> greyham@research.canon.oz.au (Graham Stoney) writes:
- >dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes:
- >> The only way I know of to wire pages in memory is through
- >> kern_serv_wire_range() but it is totally undocumented. I've never
- >> tried it myself and it probably wouldn't work from a user process.
- >
- >I'll be the first to admit that NeXT's documentation, particularly about
- >loadable kernel servers is _badly_ lacking, but can we stick to facts when
- >we're NeXT-bashing please?
- >
- >kern_serv_wire_range() is documented: check in NeXT Developer of the Digital
- >Librarian. As to whether it will solve the original poster's problem or not...
- >
- >Graham
-
- Oops! Your right... I had it mapped out because searching through that
- section tends to crash librarian. I'll try indexing it again...
-
- -Matt
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