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Mach provides a so-called external pager [[mechanism]]. This
mechanism serves to separate *managing memory* from *managing
@@ -35,7 +29,7 @@ and the offset at which to install it. (The first time
a task maps an object, Mach sends an initialization message
to the server including a control capability, which it uses
to supply pages to the kernel.) This is essentially
-the same as mapping a file into an address space on Unix
+the same as mapping a file into an address space on [[Unix]]
using `mmap`.
When a task [[faults|page_fault]], Mach checks to see if there is a memory