Re: tmpfs and the VM (Was: Re: questions on page cache and buffers)

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 20 Aug 1997 20:28:52 +0100 (BST)

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> why not just implement anonymous inodes to solve these problems, then
> we can also support anonymous shared mmap()'s as well as a nice side
> effect... you're making things way more complex than they need to be

Anonymity isnt even needed - you can stick them in procfs if you want

/proc/random-memory-thingies/n

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