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From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@fr.inter.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9
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Date: Mon,  5 Nov 2001 18:42:41 +0100
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> You can do the same on a _lot_ of Unices, but most of them suffer
> from fairly nasty deadlocks around the code handling mmap() over
> NFS when server runs on the same box.

mmap() should never hit the VFS, but I know why they'd want that.

mmap() is just a stupid way to do read() and write().