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To: "Alan L. Cox" <alc@imimic.com>
Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Virtual memory question 
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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 16:28:31 -0800
From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
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"Alan L. Cox" wrote:
> Matthew Dillon wrote:
> > ...
> >     How about something like:
> > 
> >         getmemfd().
> > 
> 
> Roughly speaking, this is shm_open(3), which we currently implement
> using files.

.. which is expressly what I wanted to avoid.

Cheers,
-Peter
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