Re: Status of the buffer cache in 2.3.7+

Jim Nance (jlnance@sailboat.mis.uncwil.edu)
Mon, 28 Jun 1999 19:41:56 -0400


On Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 05:50:52PM +0000, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Also, the new code not only gets rid of the duplication, it also cleans
> up a lot of stuff that was rather ugly before. Shared writable mappings
> are squeaky clean - and they sure as h*ll did not use to be that way ;).

Does this mean we will be able to do MAP_SHARED | MAP_ANONYMOUS mmap()ings
now, or is that a different problem?

Thanks,

Jim

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