> Well mmap is a Unix concept. IIRC, it's a Multics concept, that Brian and Dennis presumably took south to NJ with them; if it was original with Multics or is even older I'd have to check with the retired Multicians list or a archeobibliography.
> To the best of my knowledge > it is not natively supported in Windows. Right. ActiveState module repository does not include mmap.pm builds for Windows, only several *nix platforms. MKS rocks, if you need commercial grade support for *nix-on-winDos. Cygwin is fine if you don't need 800# support and don't want to manage the WINDOS ENV from KSH for launching those closed source programs from a nice shell. > Like him, I have no idea why pagefile.sys would enter into the > picture. It certainly doesn't on Linux. It oughtn't, but a lame enough emulation *of the interface* on a lame "os" might have to copy the whole thing into the swapfile instead of doing a memory-map file operation - in which case, kiss the efficiency goodbye. Bill --- William Ricker [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
