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Re: Differences between VM structs

To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Subject: Re: Differences between VM structs
From: "Raghu R. Arur" <rra2002@aria.ncl.cs.columbia.edu>
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 14:26:50 -0400 (EDT)
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> On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 09:26:59AM -0700, Kirk True wrote:
> >     5. Anonymous memory is memory that is *not* backed by a file, such
> >        as the stack or heap space, right? And mmap is called when
> >        mapping files into memory, right? The why does mmap deal with
> >        anonymous memory (sorry, I'm totally confused here)?
>
> mmap() needed very few extensions to handle the anonymous case.


 What are these extensions in mmap() that need to handle anonymous pages??
 Thanks a lot,
 Raghu
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