Re: Accelerating user mode linux

[Alan Cox]

> mmap, munmap, and mprotect by adding another argument, I'm not.  I'm talking
> about adding new syscalls, mmap2, munmap2, mprotect2 (or something more
> imaginative), which have the extra argument, having them take -1 as meaning
> "fiddle the current address space" and pursuading libc to use them instead
> of the current syscalls.  Then we would start the current ones on their way
> to the happy syscall hunting grounds in the sky.

Thats a lot more invasive than I want to be