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Date:      Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:13:08 -0800
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/sys mmap.2
Message-ID:  <442444C4.8020404@elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <86irq45etp.fsf@xps.des.no>
References:  <200603232337.k2NNb6tH020675@repoman.freebsd.org> <86irq45etp.fsf@xps.des.no>

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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:

>Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>  
>
>>  Log:
>>  Document that the documented 2GB mmap limit is actually a
>>  documentation bug.  We switched to page indexes some time around
>>  FreeBSD 2.2.  The actual 'len' limit is the maximum file size or what
>>  will fit in your address space, whichever comes first.  It should be
>>  possible to make 1TB files on 32 bit systems, but of course address space
>>  runs out long before then.
>>    
>>
>
>Are you saying that mmap() is not constrained by maxdsiz?
>  
>

that seems to be the case from my experience.

>DES
>  
>



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