Re: mmaping on plan9? (was Re: [9fans] venti /plan9port mmapped

[Alyssa M via 9fans]

On Monday, February 09, 2026, at 3:24 PM, ron minnich wrote:
> as for mmap, there's already a defacto mmap happening for executables. They 
> are not read into memory. In fact, the first instruction you run in a binary 
> results in a page fault. 
I thinking one could bring the same transparent/defacto memory mapping to 
read(2) and write(2), so the API need not change at all.
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