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malloc() is persistent
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How long is a piece of string?
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We can't safely share pointers across APDs
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open/close/read/write involve copies
Also forbids the use of storing pointers
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ObjCreate/ObjResize creates another address space
Storing offsets is serialisation
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We need a meta-data service!
It also conveniently implements UNIX files
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