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Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 10:01:00 -0500 (EST)
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Subject: Re: mmap/munmap semantics
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On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Richard Guenther wrote:

> Cool, too. So for now we will stay with zeroing by reading from /dev/zero
> which does vm tricks in linux already.

It does not do tricks when you are dealing with a shared mapping.

		-ben

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