On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 07:50:57AM -0500, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> It buys you not having to have the pages be associated with a file
> in the filesystem, without using the gross /dev/zero hack.  The
> point of MAP_ANON is to cleanly replace the mmap of /dev/zero.

I know what MAP_ANON is usefull for.
I don't see what MAP_ANON with a file descriptor != -1 is usefull for.

Martin