From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 12 10:43:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA01410 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 12 Aug 1996 10:43:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cdsnet.net (mail.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA01405 for ; Mon, 12 Aug 1996 10:43:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cdsnet.net (mail.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.5]) by mail.cdsnet.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA25888; Mon, 12 Aug 1996 10:42:14 -0700 Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 10:42:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Jaye Mathisen To: Joerg Wunsch cc: FreeBSD hackers , proff@suburbia.net Subject: Re: mmap #2 In-Reply-To: <199608120531.HAA03495@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 > Reply-To: Joerg Wunsch > To: FreeBSD hackers > 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. ;-) >