Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 10:42:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: FreeBSD hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, proff@suburbia.net Subject: Re: mmap #2 Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.960812104110.22212M-100000@mail.cdsnet.net> In-Reply-To: <199608120531.HAA03495@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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I think it was the other way around, it was truncating a mmap'd file. Specifically, I had problems when the active file shrunk after an rmgroup, then I would get weird behaviour. John said he saw where that could potentially be problematic, but I never saw any fixes run by that addressed it by name. On Mon, 12 Aug 1996, J Wunsch wrote: > Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 07:31:45 +0200 (MET DST) > From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> > Reply-To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> > To: FreeBSD hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> > Cc: proff@suburbia.net > Subject: Re: mmap #2 > > As Michael Hancock wrote: > > > > * Freebsd is purrrrfect. > > > * > > > > Cool program! > > > > I can see the ear to ear smiles on John and David and company's faces. > > Wasn't there still our long-suffering problem with INN & mmap()? I > forgot what exactly it is, something like extending an mmap'ed file > perhaps. > > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) >
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