Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Mar 1999 13:48:56 +1100 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: Linux/IA-64 byte order |
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge writes: > > On 09-Mar-99 Vladimir Dergachev wrote: > > > > Is it too stupid to suggest an "ENDIANNESS" flag for mmap ? The overhead > > for loading a page from disk is much bigger than the overhead for > > rearranging the bytes. (Perhaps it should be not a flag but an ioctl..) > > That would inhibit sharing between processes unless all mappings are > for the same endianness.
No, it wouldn't. Each process can map it as it pleases.
Regards,
Richard....
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