[lsb-discuss] New Interfaces for 3.2/4.0

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Wed Aug 2 04:09:07 PDT 2006


Ar Maw, 2006-08-01 am 17:29 -0700, ysgrifennodd Nick Stoughton:
> _POSIX_MAPPED_FILES:
> 
>   Indispensable nowadays.  Every system striving for POSIX compliance
>   probably has it.  This does not include systems using subprofiles.
> 
> _POSIX_MEMORY_PROTECTION:
> 
>   Similar to _POSIX_MMAPED_FILES.

Disagree on these two. MMUless systems can implement almost everything
but these and there are a *lot* of MMUless boxes around (Linux
especially) that are otherwise pretty much fully POSIX.

The two could probably be merged.





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