Re: RFC 155 - Remove geometric functions from core

[Jarkko Hietaniemi]

On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 07:29:00PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote:
> >>>>> "TC" == Tom Christiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
>   >> Yup.  I think somebody said that mmap() is POSIX.  It isn't.  
>   TC> Are you sure?
> 
>   TC>     http://slacvx.slac.stanford.edu/HELP/POSIX/CALLABLE_FUNCTIONS/MMAP
> 
> 
>   TC>        The mmap() function maps process addresses to a memory object.
> 
> i think he meant POSIX didn't create the mmap call (which we agree was a
> bsd thing first). jarkko already said that posix has both mmap and their
> own shared memory api.

Valiant attempt to interpret me but I really meant that POSIX doesn't
have mmap, and I was valiantly wrong :-)

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