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From: chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: mmap in cdevsw
Message-ID: <21486@mimsy.umd.edu>
Date: 27 Dec 89 16:46:44 GMT
References: <1989Dec27.132716.7274@granite.cr.bull.com>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <1989Dec27.132716.7274@granite.cr.bull.com>
freedman@granite.cr.bull.com (Jerome Freedman) writes:
>  In the cdevsw ( I hope I got that right ) in Berkeley
>systems I see an mmap. I know what the other stuff is
>supposed to do but could some one explain CLEARLY what
>this does, why I would use it and maybe even pointers
>to relevant examples.

In BSD systems, it does nothing: `reserved for future expansion'.
In BSD-*derived* systems (e.g., SunOS), it does different things
depending on the derivative.
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