Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 09 Mar 1999 18:43:18 -0800 (PST) | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: Linux/IA-64 byte order |
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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.
J
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