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From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
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Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 11:57:29 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Re: page faults
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Hi,

On Fri, 29 Oct 1999 10:52:57 -0400 (EDT), James Simmons
<jsimmons@edgeglobal.com> said:

> Its about proper virtualization. Imagine if userland would have to
> negotate access to hard drives. 

As soon as you start to memory map the files, it does.  The kernel has
no business enforcing user-level transactions to virtual memory.

--Stephen
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