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From: "Sean Hamilton" <sh@bel.bc.ca>
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  Does FreeBSD support a device that will allow for the passing of all reads
and writes on it to a userland application? I wish to handle swapping
myself, preferably without any kernel hacking.

  What would happen if the kernel decided to swap out such a process?