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    SubjectRe: Break 2.4 VM in five easy steps
    At 11:27 pm +0100 6/6/2001, android wrote:
    >> >I'd be happy to write a new routine in assembly
    >>
    >>I sincerely hope you're joking.
    >>
    >>It's the algorithm that needs fixing, not the implementation of that
    >>algorithm. Writing in assembler? Hope you're proficient at writing in
    >>x86, PPC, 68k, MIPS (several varieties), ARM, SPARC, and whatever other
    >>architectures we support these days. And you darn well better hope every
    >>other kernel hacker is as proficient as that, to be able to read it.

    >As for the algorithm, I'm sure that
    >whatever method is used to handle page swapping, it has to comply with
    >the kernel's memory management scheme already in place. That's why I would
    >need the details so that I wouldn't create more problems than already present.

    Have you actually been following this thread? The algorithm has been
    discussed and at least one alternative brought forward.

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