Virtual Memory Filesystem (?)
Guy Harris
guy at gorodish.Sun.COM
Sat May 7 04:54:31 AEST 1988
> Another 'feature' is that commands like
> cp humongeous-file /dev/null
> will take 0 seconds.
Almost:
Script started on Fri May 6 11:49:27 1988
gorodish$ cat /etc/motd
SunOS Release 4.0 (GORODISH) #267: Thu May 5 14:49:36 PDT 1988
gorodish$ time cp /vmunix /dev/null
real 0m0.13s
user 0m0.03s
sys 0m0.08s
You *do* have to spend some time starting up the program, opening the file,
"mmap"ping the pages, etc..
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