Talk:Operating system/Archive 7
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Need wordsmithing for virtual memory
The text If a program tries to access memory that is not in its current range of accessible memory, but nonetheless has been allocated to it, the kernel is interrupted in the same way as it would if the program were to exceed its allocated memory. (See section on memory management.) This kind of interrupt is referred to as a page fault.
has multiple issues.
- There may be holes in the accessible memory
- The interrupt might not be a page fault
- A page fault might not be an error.
At first I was planning to just through in a reference to segmentation, but that would not address the other issues. Can someone come up with an accurate and clean rewording that takes into account such issues:
- Demand paging
- Discontinuous storage allocation
- Guard pages for expandable structures
- Protection rings
- Read only pages and segment
- Segmentation
without going into too much detail? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 15:16, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
- This passage is completely unsourced and therefore the first priority is to rewrite based on reliable sources (as I did above). Wordsmithing is the last step, after sourcing & content. Buidhe paid (talk) 06:32, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
- My main concern is accuracy, but I don't want to make the text awkward in the process of correcting it. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 17:56, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
Wiki99 summary
Summary of changes as a result of the Wiki99 project (before, after, diff):
- Large-scale rewrite from reliable sources, fixing many unsourced content issues
- Added over 100 citations to the latest editions of various OS textbooks
- Brought coverage of OS topics more in line with the due weight in reliable sources
Further possibilities for improvement:
- Finish rewrite of article, updating the sections I didn't get to with new content based on reliable sources and summary style
- Get the article to good article status