On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 01:36:52PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 12:15:51PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> > Nope, you just have to make one process be a child of the other.
> 
> Which buys you what exactly over MAP_INHERIT?

It buys you not having to have the pages be associated with a file
in the filesystem, without using the gross /dev/zero hack.  The
point of MAP_ANON is to cleanly replace the mmap of /dev/zero.

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