From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 15 19:28:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA25656 for current-outgoing; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 19:28:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA25648 Fri, 15 Mar 1996 19:28:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) id WAA05025; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 22:23:18 GMT From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199603152223.WAA05025@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: -current and accelx To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 22:23:18 +0000 () Cc: dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au, sos@FreeBSD.org, coredump@nervosa.com, mmead@Glock.COM, current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199603160228.TAA14695@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Mar 15, 96 07:28:53 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > In any case, you are not misinterpreting MAP_SHARED, IMO. > It has been difficult to figure out what to do about this... What should we do about MAP_SHARED mappings in the case of fork()? Note that MAP_PRIVATE mappings are inherited (shared libs for example.) John