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- From: franl@centerline.com (Fran Litterio)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: mmap on HP-UX 9.0 on s700
- Date: 7 Nov 92 11:06:20
- Organization: CenterLine Software, Inc.
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- Message-ID: <FRANL.92Nov7110620@draco.centerline.com>
- References: <JINX.92Nov6221113@chamarti.ai.mit.edu>
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- In-reply-to: jinx@zurich.ai.mit.edu's message of 7 Nov 92 03:11:13 GMT
-
- jinx@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Guillermo J. Rozas) writes:
-
- > I've been reading the documentation (LaserRom) for the mmap system
- > call in HP-UX 9.0 and I have some questions about how it applies to
- > the s700.
- >
- > The documentation claims that mapped files shared among multiple
- > processes must be mapped to the same virtual address in all the
- > processes because of architectural restrictions.
-
- If this is so, then how is dld.sl guaranteed to be able to map the
- text/data of mylib.sl at the same VM address for all programs which
- were linked against it?
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