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Date:      Fri, 9 Nov 2001 15:01:22 -0500
From:      "Jason Mawdsley" <jason@macadamian.com>
To:        <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: mmap/madvise
Message-ID:  <019401c16959$4e64a8b0$2a64a8c0@macadamian.com>
References:  <200111081947.fA8JlAe03457@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> <02ae01c16891$4c1f4970$2a64a8c0@macadamian.com> <3BEB0A57.3C510C49@mindspring.com>

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> > I am creating a virtual memory manager.
> > 
> > Currently I am doing a
> > mmap(...PROT_NONE, MAP_ANON ) to reserve the memory.
> > then when committing the memory I am using mprotect( ...PROT_READ |
> > PROT_WRITE )
> 
> mmap For reservation of memory; you should
> mmap the fd for /dev/zero, with MAP_ANON
> to grab pages initially.

The man pages state that the fd must be -1 for MAP_ANON.
an open() /dev/zero will return an valid file descriptor. So how would I 
mmap using /dev/zero?

> Too bad there isn't an "Advance UNIX programming for Windows
> Programmers" book.  8-(.

Sounds like their could be a good market for one ;-)

Jason

Jason Mawdsley ~ jason@macadamian.com
Software Designer ~ m_ a c a d a m i a n    t e c h n o l o g i e s

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