tech-kern: Re: direct copy() between two proc address spaces

Subject: Re: direct copy() between two proc address spaces
To: None <tls@rek.tjls.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/21/2004 16:13:35

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On Jun 21, 2004, at 12:20 PM, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:

> I know what I _think_ should happen, but somehow I'm not so sure it
> does...

One would hope that you get to, unrelated anonymous memory regions.  
/dev/zero was an anonymous memory mapping hack inherited from SunOS, 
and nothing more.

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>


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