Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 19:14:59 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG> To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert) Cc: jlemon@americantv.com, mike@smith.net.au, perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mremap? Message-ID: <199803220014.TAA04374@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199803212152.OAA06633@usr09.primenet.com> from Terry Lambert at "Mar 21, 98 09:52:58 pm"
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Terry Lambert said: > > My preferred mechanism for doing this would be to use a call through > procfs to establish the mapping. > > Of course, I preferred using procfs to set attributes on one's self > instead of an rfork implementation (this is, in fact, how I implemented > the interprocess sharng of the per process descriptor table in UnixWare). > Rather than invent lots of primitives, we need to continue to use the existing and sufficient VM primitves. The VM code is really flexible and easy to use. If anything, you could implement the procfs stuff over the VM code if you want to. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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