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The Unix system call which establishes a mapping between a
range of addresses in a user process's address space and a
portion of some "memory object" (typically a file, one of the
special "devices" /dev/mem or /dev/kmem or some
memory-mapped peripheral). This allows the process to
access a file at random byte offsets without using the seek
system call or to access physical addresses or kernel's
virtual address space. It can also be used as an
alternative to writing a device driver since it is usually
simpler to code and faster to use.