From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 2 7:33:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8405154A6 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 07:32:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@cygnus.rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA05212; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 10:32:05 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 10:32:03 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Peter Edwards Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, green@unixhelp.org Subject: Re: mmap on /dev/zero In-Reply-To: <36DC02A7.2D99257A@isocor.ie> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Peter Edwards wrote: > > It has. :) > > > > You can not do this, you must inherit the shared segment or use SYSV. > > > > I do remeber someone trying some evil hack with /proc but i don't know > > if they were successful... were you Brian Feldman? :) > > > Hm. > I think I could write a /dev/zero like driver to do this, or at least > learn a lot trying. Would this be a worthwhile exercise? > (I must say, that /proc idea has some evil appeal, though...) I'm not a commiter, but i think it's functionality that would be most appreciated. -Alfred > -- > Peter. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message