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Subject: Re: Memory mapped files question
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On Llu, 2003-04-14 at 20:42, Bryan Shumsky wrote:
> Rewriting all of our code to manually handle the flushing is a MAJOR
> undertaking, so I was hoping there might be some sneaky solution you could
> come up with.  Any ideas?

Create a thread that does msync's every so often. Its that simple