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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Memory mapping: MAP_PRIVATE and msync()
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2024 01:52:48 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 8 Apr 2024 12:14:30 +0100, bart wrote:

> ... how did you manage to figure out the meanings and
> order of the parameters in order to be able to write those comments?

I read the docs.

> If you have 1000s of calls to such functions, will you have those
> comments plastered everwhere?

Yes.

> In a language with proper named/keyword arguments, you don't need to
> remember the order.

True. I take advantage of that--and defaults for omitted arguments--in 
Python.

But there are people in this noisegroup who don’t like me mentioning that.