Re: [test patch] dirty shared mappings (was Re: ... fragmentation)
Matthias Urlichs (smurf@work.smurf.noris.de)
9 Jan 1998 09:05:23 +0100
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:
>
> Personally, I think we should just forget about the abomination unless
> somebody comes up with something that makes it really simple and doesn't
> impact the rest of the memory management code negatively. Almost nobody
> really uses shared anonymous mappings - and I think the people who do are
> seriously misguided.
>
Isn't an anonymous shared mapping basically the same as a SysV shared
memory block whose key has been deleted?
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Matthias Urlichs
noris network GmbH