> Hi,
> Does anybody know how the mmap() works?
> mmap() creates a mapped region for a potion of the
> file. Any data written to a mapped region are stored
> in its corresponding file object "automatically" by
> OS.
> The question is how the "automatically" work.
> Thanks.
> Jerry
>
It seems to me it hooks into the paging support in the kernel - it's the only
way I see for "paging" to occur with no swap file/partition.
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