Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 26 Jul 1996 10:34:40 +0300 (EET DST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: anonymous shared mmap. Where? |
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On Wed, 24 Jul 1996, A.N.Kuznetsov wrote: > > Unpleasant discovery, 2.0 has no shared anonymous mmap ??? > I do not believe to my eyes... > > Please, do not tell me that this feature is for 2.1, > I'd like to see it in 2.0.9.
It's definitely 2.1, if even that. Shared anonymous mmap is a monstrosity (even the name is a oxymoron), and it's hard to implement to boot.
Use SysV shared memory - it's _also_ a monstrosity (and hard to implement, but that part has been done already), but at least it has made a _try_ at making sense from a semantic viewpoint. I'd like to avoid shared anonymous mmap altogether, although with the current page cache it is at least possible to do sanely in theory.
Linus
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