> On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 01:14:18PM -0400, Kenneth Albanowski wrote:
> > This does bring me back to what I said originally. Are you _sure_ that we
> > aren't describing some that is actually better then mmaping /dev/zero?
>
> Er, indeed we are describing something better than mapping /dev/zero.
> Discardable pages don't need to be mappings of /dev/zero, in fact.
> It could equally apply to many other kinds of mmap.
I was thinking along a different line that, one second thought, wasn't
very useful. In any case, yes, other types of discardable mappings sound
fun, if not of obvious use to me.
-- Kenneth Albanowski (kjahds@kjahds.com, CIS: 70705,126)
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