Re: [line-devel] Hrm.

[Michael V. <mv...@qu...>]

 > Like 8 months ago, I promised to look into NtMapViewOfSection. Well,
 > Friday I finally did, and like the book says, it can mmap() on 
page-boundries,
 > and not just 64K boundries. I've been reading the LINE mmap.c code, and I'm
 > starting to understand what it's doing.
 >
 > Hopefully later next week, when I get back from San Diego,  I'll have a 
patch
 > that ditches the cygwin mmap() and lets LINE manage it internally.

Cool.  Send it along when you have it working!

 > I'll also probably have to redo a lot of the memory management stuff - 
it looks
 > like memory is managed with a big array, with one byte per 64K chunk. Maybe
 > it's time to steal the page table code out of Linux...

Yeah, that would probably be a good idea.  At the time I did the 64K chunk 
array setup because it was quick (to implement).  But it definitely could 
be improved upon :)


Mike