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Date:      Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:14 +0100
From:      des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/sys mmap.2
Message-ID:  <86irq45etp.fsf@xps.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <200603232337.k2NNb6tH020675@repoman.freebsd.org> (Peter Wemm's message of "Thu, 23 Mar 2006 23:37:06 %2B0000 (UTC)")
References:  <200603232337.k2NNb6tH020675@repoman.freebsd.org>

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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 spa=
ce
>   runs out long before then.

Are you saying that mmap() is not constrained by maxdsiz?

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no



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