From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jan 21 10:26:52 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58D5737B405; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 10:26:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D78243F13; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 10:26:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@freebsd.org) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0LIQD6Z016712; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 19:26:14 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@freebsd.org) To: Robert Watson Cc: Matthew Dillon , "Alan L. Cox" , Peter Wemm , arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: getsysfd() patch #1 (Re: Virtual memory question) From: phk@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 21 Jan 2003 13:01:11 EST." Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 19:26:13 +0100 Message-ID: <16711.1043173573@critter.freebsd.dk> Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Robe rt Watson writes: > >Ok, so lemme revise my thinking. Could we take this patch, rename the API >from getsysfd(various things) to memfd(size), and simply provide anonymous >swap-backed memory only? The traditional design would be: fd = open("/dev/shmem", ...); ptr = mmap(..., fd, ...) -- 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message