Re: mmap() page swapping location?

From: Juan J. Quintela (quintela@fi.udc.es)
Date: Wed Aug 02 2000 - 15:20:09 EST

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>>>>> "chris" == Chris Quinn <cq@htec.demon.co.uk> writes:

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

Sorry, I was corrected, MAP_PRIVATE means that you never write again
to the file.

Later, Juan.

-- In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they are different -- Larry McVoy

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