From: Howlin' Bob (gt8134b@prism.gatech.EDU)
Date: 07/08/93


From: gt8134b@prism.gatech.EDU (Howlin' Bob)
Subject: Re: NT vs Linux (was: Re: truth or dare)
Date: 8 Jul 1993 19:50:21 GMT

In <C9uqxn.AHF@boulder.parcplace.com> imp@boulder.parcplace.com (Warner Losh) writes:

>In article <MUTS.93Jul7072935@muts.hacktic.nl> muts@muts.hacktic.nl
>(Peter Mutsaers) writes:
>>Name me another thing common to all modern unices
>>and missing on Linux.

>A generic mmap(2).

Sure, if "modern" means "the most modern." SVR4 has mmap(), Solaris and
SunOS do, too. Linux will have it soon; I am working on it in the
background (it's vying with dosemu for time), and it seems Stephen
Tweedie is, too. One of us will get it done.

-- 
Robert Sanders
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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