OS/2

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Tue May 30 12:01:52 2000

> > What I'm saying is that the way is *should* work is:
> >
> > pointer fault on attempt to execute faulted pointer to
> DLL routine
> > segment fault on attempt to execute code in unmapped
> DLL routine's
> > segment
> > page fault on attempt to execute code in unmapped DLL
> routine's page
> >
> > And in a really proper OS you'd also get a page fault if
> the page map
> > containing the PageMapTableEntries weren't currently mapped in (and
> > yes you can page out page maps).
> >
> > And before you point out that segments went away from Win32 let
> > me say that too is another fatal flaw with the Windows family of
> > OS's.
>
> Is it just me -- or does this sound like Multics segments?

Dang- busted again. :-)

-doug q
Received on Tue May 30 2000 - 12:01:52 BST