>>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
