Could hurd use some mach port chicanery and vm_map?

[workingjubilee]

My understanding is that currently the /proc/self/maps implementation on Hurd exposes memory objects via their relevant mach ports as the "path", like [mem_obj={port_num}]. This seems like it might provide us with enough information that we can "simply" use the ultra-verbose vm_map (...with some wrapper code, obviously)... to map in the relevant segments of the relevant files.

I think emulating specifics of the /proc/self/maps implementation Linux has on Hurd may have made sense at one point but is ultimately a losing battle if one actually wants to make a different OS. See e.g. #671 which the Linux implementation may start to use soon enough.

cc @sthibaul

[sthibaul]

vm_region can be used to query information directly from the kernel, yes