Re: mmap() page swapping location?

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"Juan J. Quintela" wrote:

> not at all, the only differece between MAP_PRIVATE and MAP_SHARED is
> that you need to do an msync with MAP_PRIVATE to write to the disk,
> with MAP_SHARED the write to the disk will be an any time.
>

I tested this with a trivial program under 2.2.12-20/gcc 2.91.66,
and where MAP_PRIVATE was exchanged for MAP_SHARED the result was different! ie. after an msync(), munmap() and then close(), the accessed
file remained unchanged in the former case.
How sure are you?!

Thanks,
Chris

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