At Tue, 18 Oct 2005 17:32:46 +0200, Simon Nieuviarts wrote: > And what if the pager does not answer ?
Then you shouldn't have trusted the pager to begin with. In this case, the pager is necessarily part of the task's TCB. > I think the pager can only give hints > to an external paging task that takes the real decisions. The pager can not > be considered as reliable. I don't understand these claims. What kind of hints is the pager going to give? As far as I can see, there are no hints to give, only instructions. For instance: "if I fault at this address, map this frame". If the pager's pager maps a different frame then the task is now broken. Thanks, Neal _______________________________________________ L4-hurd mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd
