Subject: Re: MAP_ANON
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/18/2003 13:01:43
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On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 12:59:40PM +0100, Erik =C4ngg=E5rd wrote:
>=20
> Martin Husemann wrote:
>=20
> >"The file descriptor used for creating MAP_ANON regions is used only for=
=20
> >naming" - what does that mean?
> >=20
> >
> If you want two processes to share a chunk of memory (hence it has to be=
=20
> named) but you don't want that memory to be backed by a file=20
> (unnecessary disk i/o). That is how I interpreted it.

So, the processes would pass the file descriptor through a AF_LOCAL socket?
	-is

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