Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 07:40:36 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@sippysoft.com> Cc: "current@freebsd.org" <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Optional mmap(2) support for geom(4) providers Message-ID: <4488.1147758036@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 15 May 2006 12:52:37 PDT." <4468DC05.9080808@sippysoft.com>
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In message <4468DC05.9080808@sippysoft.com>, Maxim Sobolev writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> In message <44681D92.80309@sippysoft.com>, Maxim Sobolev writes: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I would like to extend md(4) with support for mmap(4) operations, >> >> Uhm, how exactly would that work ? > >Just like ioctl(2) works: geom_dev will accept mmap requests and pass it >to the underlying provider for execution if that provider has mmap >handler in its g_class. No, I meant: how will you use this ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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