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author | Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@slitaz.org> |
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date | Wed Apr 13 10:27:34 2022 +0000 (2022-04-13) |
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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/libsigsegv/description.txt Wed Apr 13 10:27:34 2022 +0000 1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ 1.4 +GNU libsigsegv is a library for handling page faults in user mode. 1.5 +A page fault occurs when a program tries to access to a region of memory 1.6 +that is currently not available. 1.7 + 1.8 +Catching and handling a page fault is a useful technique for implementing: 1.9 + 1.10 + pageable virtual memory, 1.11 + memory-mapped access to persistent databases, 1.12 + generational garbage collectors, 1.13 + stack overflow handlers, 1.14 + distributed shared memory, 1.15 + ...