Date: Sat, 4 Jan 1997 11:43:34 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich) Subject: Re: MMAP Troubles (Joerg?) Message-ID: <Mutt.19970104114334.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199701040229.VAA00702@crh.cl.msu.edu>; from Charles Henrich on Jan 3, 1997 21:29:08 -0500 References: <199701040229.VAA00702@crh.cl.msu.edu>
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As Charles Henrich wrote: > I have an oppourtunity for the MMAP person (Appears to be Joerg by > the .c, but cant tell for sure :) Certainly not me, rather John Dyson. But doesn't matter. > Anyway, I have a big beefy pentium pro system here for use as news > that im going to roll out in a few weeks. INN w/ MMAP causes the > NULL trashed active file, interested in working on the problem with > a system at your beck and call? IIRC, the last word on INN w/ mmap() was that INN uses mmap() against the specs in that it tries to shorten (or extend) the file while it's being mmap()'ed. This only incidentally works on SysV's. All this is hearsay, so maybe John or somebody else will tell you more exactly. -- 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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