Chris Angelico writes: > On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 10:05 PM Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> > wrote: > > > > Chris Angelico wrote: > > > In contrast, a mmap'd file is memory that you do indeed own. > > > > Although it's not really accurate to say that it's owned by > > a particular process. If two processes mmap the same file, > > the physical memory pages holding it appear in the address > > spaces of both processes.
Subject to COW, I presume. Probably in units smaller than the whole file (per page?) > Tell me, which process is responsible for libc being in memory? > Other than, like, all of them? Yes. Why would you want a different answer? _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/