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At 1:15 PM -0700 7/16/03, Rich Morin wrote:
>At 8:33 PM +0100 7/16/03, David Cantrell wrote:
>>As far as the program is concerned, it's a complete copy. But yes,
>>most modern virtual memory implementations will, I believe, do copy
>>on write. I haven't actually tested this on OS X though :-)
>
>OK, I'm curious; how _would_ one go about testing this?
The easiest way to do so is to snag the Darwin source and take a look
at some of the low-level MMU manipulation code in the kernel. It
should be pretty obvious whether (though not necessarily how :) it's
done.
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