That seems like it would create difficulties in porting software there. Please correct me if I'm wrong but the original plan9 appears to also have no support for shared memory or for poll/select.
>Backfilling IO on page fault is really all mmap does, conceptually.
For read-only resources yes, for handling writes to the mmapped region, that seems quite broken.
That seems like it would create difficulties in porting software there. Please correct me if I'm wrong but the original plan9 appears to also have no support for shared memory or for poll/select.
>Backfilling IO on page fault is really all mmap does, conceptually.
For read-only resources yes, for handling writes to the mmapped region, that seems quite broken.