> The Hermit Hacker writes:
>
> > > Yea, it is pretty low priority, especially since most OS's don't support
> > > ANON mmap(). Most BSD's support it, but I don't think Linux or others
> > > do.
> >
> > ah, then not a low priority, a non-starter, period ... maybe when all the
> > OSs we support move to supporting ANON mmap() :(
>
> It would be worthwhile for those operating systems that don't have SysV
> shared memory but do have mmap(). But I don't have one of those, so I
> ain't gonna do it. ;-)
All have SysV memory. mmap() usage is only useful in enabling larger
buffers without kernel changes.
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