there are also still two unmerged branches with attempts to address the forking concern, haven't engaged them further. fixed a bus error.
commit 848710ed307c7547f9c822081c4d274ad3c0536c (HEAD -> vmem, xloem/vmem)
Date: Tue Feb 8 19:18:14 2022 -0500
fixed bus error for >2GB allocation caused by lack of off_t offset in mi_unix_mmapx