Martin Husemann wrote:

>"The file descriptor used for creating MAP_ANON regions is used only for 
>naming" - what does that mean?
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If you want two processes to share a chunk of memory (hence it has to be 
named) but you don't want that memory to be backed by a file 
(unnecessary disk i/o). That is how I interpreted it.

/Erik

>I.e. I don't see the point why the kernel should be fixed instead of the
>man page ;-)
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>Martin
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