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From: Chris Friesen on 17 May 2010 13:02
On 05/17/2010 10:36 AM, Casper H.S. Dik wrote:
> Chris Friesen <cbf123(a)mail.usask.ca> writes:

>> It is not true that it "can't" have such a location. The spec doesn't
>> mandate a storage location, but it doesn't say that they are forbidden
>> either. A conforming implementation could specify a storage location
>> for private mappings should it wish to do so.
>
> Ah, but it is *private* so it is clearly it cannot be in the filesystem
> space.

Sure it can. Nothing says that the filesystem space has to be global.

It would be relatively straightforward to implement this using
per-process filesystem namespaces. Linux could do this now if anyone
wanted to do it.

Chris
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