Re: anonymous shared mmap. Where? (fwd)

Jim Nance (Jim_Nance@avanticorp.com)
Fri, 26 Jul 1996 09:18:06 -0400 (EDT)


Forwarded message:

> On Wed, 24 Jul 1996, A.N.Kuznetsov wrote:
> >
> > Unpleasant discovery, 2.0 has no shared anonymous mmap ???

> It's definitely 2.1, if even that. Shared anonymous mmap is a monstrosity
> (even the name is a oxymoron), and it's hard to implement to boot.

Can someone tell me what shared anonymous mmap is. Is it a way to
create shared memory regions between a process and its children, or is
it a way to create shared memory regions between unrelated processses?

Thanks,

Jim