Re: Optional mmap(2) support for geom(4) providers

From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j_at_resnet.uoregon.edu> Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 14:27:07 -0700 · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:38:55 UTC

Maxim Sobolev wrote this message on Tue, May 16, 2006 at 01:24 -0700:
> Well, in my particular case I would like to experiment with
> dynamic exporting of shared ELF objects from the kernel into
> userspace. md(4) seems like a good fit, but dlopen(3) uses
> mmap, so that it doesn't work OOB. There can be other uses
> as well.

Doing a seperate cdev that implements mmap is quite easy...

For something like that it seems like you wouldn't need any of md's
disk device features, would you?

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