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Date:      Tue, 10 Dec 1996 15:33:11 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Dyson <dyson@dyson.iquest.net>
To:        terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
Cc:        scrappy@hub.org, erich@lodgenet.com, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Multiple Buffer allocation of Shared Memory
Message-ID:  <199612102033.PAA00573@dyson.iquest.net>
In-Reply-To: <199612101843.LAA04595@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Dec 10, 96 11:43:36 am

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> John?  How does mmap'ing /dev/zero work?
> 
It was hacked in, as it has not previously existed in BSD.  (MAP_ANON
is the canonically correct way in BSD.)  Does POSIX require /dev/zero?

John



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