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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: streams and file locks, ancient OS history, ARM is sort of
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Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2024 03:04:43 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 1 Jul 2024 02:10:43 -0000 (UTC), John Levine wrote:

> The goal here is to map a file into the address space.

What if you don’t know how big it’s going to be?