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Article #2211NeXTs running 3.0 *cannot* swap to a raw partition
From: Barry Lustig
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:50
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:50
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There has been speculation recently about whether a NeXT can swap to
a raw partition or not. I decided to do a little research on this
point and found out that you cannot. The reason for this should be
clear from the following:
Current directory is /
Reading symbol data from sdmach...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) disassemble swapon
Dump of assembler code for function swapon:
0x4068288 <swapon>: rts
End of assembler dump.
(gdb)
NeXT removed the code for the swapon system call from the kernel.
They would have made life a lot easier for people if they also removed
the call from the system library.
barry
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!ictv!barry From: barry@ictv.com (Barry Lustig) Subject: NeXTs running 3.0 *cannot* swap to a raw partition Message-ID: <1993Jan21.195003.6023@ictv.com> Sender: usenet@ictv.com Organization: ICTV, Santa Clara, CA (408) 562-9200 Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:50:03 GMT Lines: 24