[haiku-development] Re: Haiku R1/alpha updating (was decisions)

Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Agreed. I'd even say that MAP_COPY is superfluous, since MAP_PRIVATE 
> should 
> imply that behavior -- at least I think it's pretty inconsistent ATM.

Looking at the specs, it's definitely allowed to do that; the behaviour 
in this regard is just mentioned to be "unspecified".
The only reason for MAP_COPY would be that it's more expensive than a 
MAP_PRIVATE that always shows the current data in an unchanged page.

Bye,
   Axel.

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