you have successfully reinvented multics with networking. some people have done page-based distributed shared memory along these lines.
the problem with distribution is that you need some protocol involving naming to send the pages around. which ends up looking quite a bit like a file protocol. with One True addressing scheme. - erik On Thu Feb 2 13:24:19 CST 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > And with 64bit Virtual Memory why not mmap everything? [except for the > thrashing on my poor hard disk and lack of terrabytes of physical memory :)] > > I jokingly have been saying this to only close personal friends for a while. > > Why can't I mmap a remote process's memory? Some embedded systems [used > to?] let me do this and pass messages with memcpy :). > > Throw off the shackles of "read" and "write" calls.... use mmap instead :) > > *chuckle* >
