how do exit and _exit affect mmapped memory?

[Godmar Back]

In the libc code base?  Nowhere. The kernel does this.

On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Dmitry Goncharov
<dgoncharov@users.sf.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 05:24:33PM +0200, Ángel González wrote:
>> On 09/09/12 06:32, Godmar Back wrote:
>> > It'll be saved in all cases, no matter what the process does or how it exits.
>> >
>> >  - Godmar
>> Assuming the OS doesn't crash after that before it updates the file on
>> disk :)
>>
>> Which is highly unlikely, if you need to protect against that
>> eventuality, call msync()
>>
> Thanks, folks.
> Do you, by any chance, know where in the source tree the code which flushes
> these pages can be found?
>
> regards, Dmitry