Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: mmap() page swapping location? | From | "Juan J. Quintela" <> | Date | 02 Aug 2000 12:03:19 +0200 |
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>>>>> "chris" == Chris Quinn <cq@htec.demon.co.uk> writes:
Hi Chris
chris> I don't think MAP_PRIVATE quite fits the bill because pages chris> become divorced from the file; msync() and munmap() seem no chris> longer to reflect changes back to disk. I want to keep that chris> association as it is efficient.
not at all, the only differece between MAP_PRIVATE and MAP_SHARED is that you need to do an msync with MAP_PRIVATE to write to the disk, with MAP_SHARED the write to the disk will be an any time.
Later, Juan.
-- In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they are different -- Larry McVoy
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