From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 6 11:22:17 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA12597 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 6 Dec 1995 11:22:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA12588 Wed, 6 Dec 1995 11:22:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA01711; Wed, 6 Dec 1995 12:19:15 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199512061919.MAA01711@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Any operational code using mmap() on FreeBSD ? To: jau@jau.csc.fi (Jukka Ukkonen) Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 12:19:15 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199512061457.QAA01219@jau.csc.fi> from "Jukka Ukkonen" at Dec 6, 95 04:56:54 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Does anyone have a working example of code that uses mmap(2) > on FreeBSD? I have tried several examples that have been quite > all right on ConvexOS (10.2 and 11.0) and SunOS (4.1.[34]), > but failed quite miserably when tried on FreeBSD (2.0.5). > > As I am beginning to suspect that mmap() is somehow different > on FreeBSD from what it is on Convex or Sun (or maybe it has > never really worked on FreeBSD) I would like to see a working > example, if there is any available. If there is none, I'd better > let that mmap() thing alone, and try to do something more useful. I would (and I'm sure John and other who are actually working on this would!) like to see some small test cases with assertions for correct results for the test cases you are interested in. Would this be possible? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.