Re: A patch for xlog.c

> The Hermit Hacker writes:
>
> > > Yea, it is pretty low priority, especially since most OS's don't support
> > > ANON mmap().  Most BSD's support it, but I don't think Linux or others
> > > do.
> >
> > ah, then not a low priority, a non-starter, period ... maybe when all the
> > OSs we support move to supporting ANON mmap() :(
>
> It would be worthwhile for those operating systems that don't have SysV
> shared memory but do have mmap().  But I don't have one of those, so I
> ain't gonna do it.  ;-)

All have SysV memory.  mmap() usage is only useful in enabling larger
buffers without kernel changes.

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