Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 13:09:40 -0800 From: Arun Sharma <arun@sharma-home.net> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Virtual memory question Message-ID: <20030118210940.GA22024@sharma-home.net> In-Reply-To: <200301112342.h0BNgj9a048596@apollo.backplane.com> References: <20030111224444.94D102A89E@canning.wemm.org> <200301112342.h0BNgj9a048596@apollo.backplane.com>
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On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 03:42:45PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > This is basically how shared memory works, except that shared memory > is managed outside the file descriptor framework. I would love to > see a shared memory object that is managed inside the file > descriptor framework, sort of like 'pipe()'. I do not see any need > to use /dev/zero to implement the feature, though, because it will > not improve portability. > > How about something like: > > getmemfd(). Hugetlbfs that was recently introduced in Linux uses a similar fd based mechanism to implement shared memory. -Arun To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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