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- From: kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Client/Server Coding
- Message-ID: <u928wB1w165w@kf8nh.wariat.org>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 11:56:29 EST
- References: <1993Jan11.022649.14872@netcom.com>
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- Organization: Brandon S. Allbery's Personal System
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- zmbenhal@netcom.com (Zeyd M. Ben-Halim) writes:
- > In article <BsR7wB5w165w@kf8nh.wariat.org> kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S.
- > >Someone has done System V IPC for Linux. This seems perhaps a bit silly to
- > >me; I can write (have already designed in my head) a System V shared memory
- > >emulator library that uses mmap() (the standard Linux shared memory
- > ^^^^
- > This is incomplete in Linux. You can only mmap /dev/mem (done so we can acces
- > the screen).
-
- ????? It was my understanding that the kernel-level mmap primitives
- ((*fs->bmap)()) were used to implement demand paging. So what, aside from a
- little bit of glue (and presumably some error checking) in the mmap syscall
- itself, is missing?
-
- ++Brandon
-
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