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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: GNAT and Memory Maps?
Date: 08 Jul 2003 21:20:57 +0100
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Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:

> Simon Wright wrote:
> > I would be very surprised if GNAT ever chose to use mmap -- how would
> > it know which file to map?
> 
> The traditional choice is /dev/zero, which provides an infinitely
> long stream of zero bytes.

Oh, using MAP_PRIVATE? I live and learn!