>>>>> "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.
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