On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 03:56:00PM -1000, Brent W. Baccala wrote: > I've figured out why the patched exec server didn't work with mmap, and > just opened a bug on it, with a fix attached. > > So now I've got a working, mmap-less exec server that burns a lot of extra > RAM (each process gets its own private copy of the C library), but lets me > execute files across a netmsg TCP/IP session. > > I think the next logical step is to get it to attempt an mmap, and only > fall back if that doesn't work.
You might also want to consider making the mmap-less case more efficient by carefully copying the data. I didn't insist on COW zero-copy for no reason. -- Richard Braun
