On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, Mordae wrote: > first let me apologize if I've picked a wrong address. Its probably more an issue of us understanding what you want. > Question: Is it possible to create a copy-on-write copy > of a MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS memory mapping > in the user space? Effectively a snapshot of > memory region. fork() and clone() can do this. > I understand that clone() optionally does this > on much larger scale, but that's not really it. Ok let say you have a memory range in the address space from which you want to take a snapshot. How is that snapshot data visible? To another process? Via a file? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>