This is a test release of the Linux Persistent Memory system.
The LPSM is a C library with a simple interface that manages a segment
of memory backed by a persistent file. LPSM differs from ordinary
mmap() in two ways: it can optionally offer heap management
(malloc()/free()/realloc()) within the arena; more importantly, a
transaction log is used to ensure the consistency of the persistent
representation. The application notifies LPSM whenever the arena is in
a consistent state, suitable for "checkpointing". If the application
or system crashes, the arena will always be recovered to a consistent
checkpoint.



Unless otherwise noted, all files in this distributions are:

  Copyright 2001 H. Peter Anvin - All Rights Reserved

This package is licensed under the GNU LGPL version 2.1.
See the included file COPYING.LIB for licensing conditions.

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THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT SNAPSHOT.  If this was a real release there
would be some documentation and a much better information in this
file.

IMPORTANT: I cannot at this stage guarantee that future versions of
the LPSM will be binary compatible.  These are test releases.  Use at
your own risk.

Please see the included man page lpsm(7) for usage details.