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To: lucio@proxima.alt.za, 9fans@9fans.net
Date: Thu,  2 Apr 2009 12:27:46 +0200
From: lucio@proxima.alt.za
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Subject: Re: [9fans] segfree() - more details?
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>>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.

OK, I believe you, but you're not telling me _how_ the "initial text
and data from an image" is specified.  And that is really the bit I
want to know about :-)

++L