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From: Tim Hockin <thockin@isunix.it.ilstu.edu>
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Subject: Re: how mmap() works?
To: andreas.bombe@munich.netsurf.de (Andreas Bombe)
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 15:28:05 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: jhong001@yahoo.com (Jerry Hong), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
In-Reply-To: <20010401184131.A2474@storm.local> from "Andreas Bombe" at Apr 01, 2001 06:41:31 PM
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> Without syncing, Linux writes whenever it thinks it's appropriate, e.g.
> when pages have to be freed (I think also when the bdflush writes back
> data, i.e. every 30 seconds by default).

what about mmap() on non-filesystem files (/dev/mem, /proc/bus/pci...) ?

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