Re: mmap system call ?

Rik van Riel (H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl)
Tue, 22 Sep 1998 07:25:52 +0200 (CEST)


On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Ravi Wijayaratne wrote:

> Does anyone know where the mmap system call is implemented in the linux
> source tree ?

The main pieces of code are in mm/filemap.c and mm/mmap.c, with
some help from the filesystem bmap code. Only the NFS filesystem
doesn't (didn't?) have bmap and used it's own mmap code.

> I found generic_file_mmap in linux/mm/file_map.c. Who calls this
> function ?

I haven't got a clue. Grep(1) is your friend...

Rik.
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