Subj : Re: Question
To   : comp.programming
From : Bill Cunningham
Date : Wed Sep 28 2005 10:14 pm

> I'm not sure, but I think most Unixes on the other hand simply map the
file
> on disk to some virtual memory and have the pager handle the actual
reading
> from disk.  For this trick to work, the pager needs to handle
copy-on-write
> pages, of course.  But it's quite advantageous because you reduce swap
use.
>
>
> SaSW, Willem

    Ok is the pager the system's loader?

Bill

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