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Date: Sun,  2 Nov 2008 18:36:10 -0700
From: "ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] mmap
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On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 5:50 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
>> * Roman V. Shaposhnik <rvs@sun.com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 17:29 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
>> > > Convenience is one point (sometimes be a big point), but another
>> > > important one is sharing. Without mmap(), an (real) shared library
>> > > support most likely will require special kernel support.
>> >
>> > What aspect of shared libraries are you aching for? Dynamic
>> > linking or the dynamic loading?
>>
>> 3rd: Sharing pages.
>
> segment(3) already provides this.


I still remember this science fiction movie from when I was a kid.
Time travelers. At the end of the movie, you realized that they were
ending at the point where they were started, stuck in a loop, oh no!

and here we are at mmap again.

ron