RE: On PATH_MAX

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 10:39 -0700, Christopher Nelson wrote:

> Yeah... I was thinking about that after I wrote it, and I can see how
> that is the case.  Does the implementation simply have a user-slidable
> window?  Something comparable to a seek, where I can now access that
> memory from byte x to x+n where n is the window size?  Or is it
> automated in some fashion?

In EROS, it goes like this:

I'm holding a capability to a memory region that you provided.

I insert this capability into a known slot in my address space
structures. It is now mapped at a known location in my address space.

I now reference it in the usual way using load/store instructions.

shap