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From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Subject: Re: re joe's questions on vm/mincore/etc.
To: rminnich@Sarnoff.COM (Ron G. Minnich)
Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 08:58:38 -0500 (CDT)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960515054837.6508E-100000@terra> from "Ron G. Minnich" at May 15, 96 05:50:03 am
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> something i'd like to have but have not spent time figuring out how to do 
> is just directly mmap the ptes for a piece of your own address space. 
> Then you don't have to take the hit that mincore requires:
> 	syscall
> 	walk ptes
> 	copyout()
> 
> So if anyone out there has mmap'ed their own ptes or knows how, i'm 
> listening.

Oooo  we're rapidly diverging from a portable solution now!  :-)  ;-)

(I was looking at this in part because it works under at least one other
major OS, SunOS/Solaris, and I run news servers under both environments).

... JG