Making, drinking tea and reading an opus magnum from Lindgren, Jon:
> > > Quick q: I'm tounge tied and can't remember the term used 
> > > to describe 
> > > the behavior of a VM which doesn't swap mmap'd files into "usual" 
> > > swap, but simply discards the page and reloads it from the actual 
> > > mmap'd file.
> > 
> > Um...don't all VM's do this? It would be the easiest way to 
> > do mmap. (Otherwise, if someone tries to read or write that 
> > page of the file using "regular" I/O calls, the system would 
> > have to know that it needs to pull that page from the swap 
> > rather than from the file itself. Keeping the extra copy is 
> > harder, not easier!)
> 
> Yes - all VM's I know do this.  I was explaining it to somebody, and
> completely forgot the term used to decribe (name) it, that's all.

not all. those that have no pages cannot.

cu

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