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Subject: Re: [9fans] Ephase question.
From: David Gordon Hogan <dhog@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 07:43:45 -0400
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> On freebsd and Linux, exec happens via an mmap (more or less). Possibly
> the behavioural difference you saw between binary and normal file was due
> to how the kernels handle mmap for exec vs. file I/O, not due to it being
> a binary vs. normal file.

So [gigantic leap here], not only does Linux have ~250 system
calls, but most of them can be emulated with mmap?