Re: mmap() versus read()

Rik van Riel (H.H.vanRiel@fys.ruu.nl)
Mon, 9 Mar 1998 19:30:52 +0100 (MET)


On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Larry McVoy wrote:

> The real problem is this: can a process put a request in the disk
> queue and then return from system all, leaving the OS to finish it up?

It could if we use a kernel thread to do the actual paging...

Rik.
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