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RE: [Lse-tech] [rfc][api] Shared Memory Binding

To: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Subject: RE: [Lse-tech] [rfc][api] Shared Memory Binding
From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 13:51:23 -0800 (PST)
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On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Luck, Tony wrote:
> Why tie this to the sysV ipc shm mechanism?  Couldn't you make
> a more general "mmbind()" call that applies to a "start, len"
> range of virtual addresses?

I'll second that motion.  Presumably this could work
on any range of pages, using the kernel routines to
split vmareas as need be.

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