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- From: mjr@TIS.COM (Marcus J. Ranum)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: Re: Ultrix and mmap() of a regular file
- Message-ID: <9212312128.AA21489@TIS.COM>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 21:28:38 GMT
- References: <1hvnfnINNo4u@cat.cis.Brown.EDU>
- Sender: daemon@Apple.COM
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- JIM@brownvm.brown.edu (James Mathiesen) writes:
- >Is this really true?
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- Yes. Think of ULTRIX as 4.2BSD. ;)
-
- >Do more recent versions of Ultrix let you mmap() a file?
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- No. They probably never will. DEC isn't likely to do the work
- to ULTRIX' virtual memory subsystem that is required. DEC's OSF/1 has
- memory mapped files.
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- mjr.
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