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From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Copyout fix for i386
Date: 03 Oct 1993 04:27:08 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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In-reply-to: vandys@cisco.com's message of 2 Oct 93 00:36:40 GMT


In article <vandys.749522200@cisco.com> vandys@cisco.com (Andrew
Valencia) writes:

   I have heard talk about using the RPL field of the segment
   descriptor, and would like to know if it works, [...]

My impression is that RPL is used only for segment protection, not
page protection.