On Feb 18, 2008 10:06 AM, Joel C. Salomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Given the 'joys' of mmap over remote file > systems, we *really* don't want it in Plan 9 as-is!
What are those "joys" of which you speak? Just about every Unix system in the world today (including linux) that does an exec over nfs does the equivalent of mmap (in the kernel, so you never see it) or explicitly (in the case of shared libraries). SunOS/Solaris has done it that way for 20 years now. It kinda works ... ron
