From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
To: lucio@proxima.alt.za, 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] segfree() - more details?
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 11:31:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d8e5a489a2445a251fc0acdfe8097c48@terzarima.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6c529a9785a1131ce815f5fa79593321@proxima.alt.za>
>in segattach(2) suggests that there is some mechanism to associate
>disk file portions with memory segments (that being what Unix's MMAP
>does, roughly),
not really: it will read initial text and data from an image,
but that's it. apparently if you segfree your data space it
will reinitialise it from the image, effectively resetting it,
but i'd be surprised if anything uses that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-02 10:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-02 9:13 lucio
2009-04-02 10:31 ` Charles Forsyth [this message]
2009-04-02 12:50 ` cinap_lenrek
[not found] <28ec308e3a4db01f0e6367ecb615903b@terzarima.net>
2009-04-02 10:27 ` lucio
2009-04-02 11:44 ` Charles Forsyth
2009-04-02 15:48 ` ron minnich
2009-04-02 17:48 ` lucio
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