common-lisp@gentoo.org Gentoo Common Lisp Project This is a library for handling page faults in user mode. A page fault occurs when a program tries to access to a region of memory that is currently not available. Catching and handling a page fault is a useful technique for implementing: - pageable virtual memory, - memory-mapped access to persistent databases, - generational garbage collectors, - stack overflow handlers, - distributed shared memory, libsigsegv