On Tue, Feb 10, 2026 at 9:31 AM Alyssa M via 9fans <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
This is what sunos did in 1988, and it proved tricky. It took a while to iron it all out, and it was certainly a very complex thing to chase down. It's certainly not as simple as your one liner above :-) ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Te8d7c6e48b5c075b-Mc3e17125b9c934e917096903 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
