Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Sep 1998 10:09:55 +0100 | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: What's wrong with MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS? |
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Hi,
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998 20:24:57 +0200, Felix von Leitner <leitner@math.fu-berlin.de> said:
> What is the problem with the shared anonymous mmap syntax? > I mean, if the programmer is so dumb that he does not use blocks he > allocated, God help him. That should not be a reason not to have a > library call.
The library call is there. It's the kernel which doesn't have the functionality: the swapper assumes that all swappable pages are private.
The swap cache code in 2.1 makes this much easier to fix, but in the end it's going to be a 2.3 job. In all likelihood 2.2 will not support shared anonymous mappings.
--Stephen
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