mmap in cdevsw
Chris Torek
chris at mimsy.umd.edu
Thu Dec 28 03:46:44 AEST 1989
In article <1989Dec27.132716.7274 at granite.cr.bull.com>
freedman at granite.cr.bull.com (Jerome Freedman) writes:
> In the cdevsw ( I hope I got that right ) in Berkeley
>systems I see an mmap. I know what the other stuff is
>supposed to do but could some one explain CLEARLY what
>this does, why I would use it and maybe even pointers
>to relevant examples.
In BSD systems, it does nothing: `reserved for future expansion'.
In BSD-*derived* systems (e.g., SunOS), it does different things
depending on the derivative.
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