From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <7871fcf50807301842l6fc16dacme597ad2a83604578@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:42:35 -0400 From: "Joel C. Salomon" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <7871fcf50807300925n3fea66a9o3defd5338df785dd@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080717142135.539A31E8C1C@holo.morphisms.net> <20080729085214.GA3072@nibiru.local> <20080729162639.GA31092@satori.no-ip.org> <20080730152904.GA17909@nibiru.local> <7871fcf50807300925n3fea66a9o3defd5338df785dd@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] mmap Topicbox-Message-UUID: f7cccc42-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Joel C. Salomon wrote: > I forget who said it, Found it in : On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 07:43:45 -0400, David Gordon Hogan wrote: > > On freebsd and Linux, exec happens via an mmap (more or less). > So [gigantic leap here], not only does Linux have ~250 system > calls, but most of them can be emulated with mmap? --Joel