>>>>> On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 15:20:10 +0100, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> said:
Christoph> mount -t hugetlbfs whocares /huge
Christoph> fd = open("/huge/nose", ..)
Christoph> mmap(.., fd, ..)
One potential downside of this is that programmers might expect
mremap(), mprotect() etc. to work on the returned memory at the
granularity of base-pages. I'm not sure though whether that was part
of the reason Linus wanted separate syscalls.
--david
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