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From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
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On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 02:36:03PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

    (assuming you speak about 2.2 because 2.4 obviously doesn't merge
    anything and that's the point of the discussion) So what? What do you
    mean with your observation?

for anonymous maps, when it can extend the previos map, mmap will do
so --- it happens to occur quite often in practice




  --cw