Re: [dev] stderr: unnecessary?

From: Kris Maglione <maglione.k_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 07:07:57 -0400

On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 12:04:17PM +0100, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote:
> On 12 Jun 2010, at 11:53, pancake wrote:
>>
>> That's why mmap is for. Using read is just stupid.
>
> I've been told mmap hugely complicates virtual memory systems. Anyone
> want to confirm or deny this?

Yes, it does. Hugely. But, on the other hand, it's the entire
basis of modern malloc implementatons and dynamic linking and
loading.

-- 
Kris Maglione
Microsoft is not the answer.  Microsoft is the question.  NO is the
answer.
	--Eric Naggum
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