From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 8 7:45:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from enst.enst.fr (enst.enst.fr [137.194.2.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3613C14CED; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 07:45:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from beyssac@enst.fr) Received: from bofh.enst.fr (bofh-2.enst.fr [137.194.2.37]) by enst.enst.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA21830; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 16:45:43 +0200 (MET DST) Received: by bofh.enst.fr (Postfix, from userid 12426) id BD9D5D226; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 15:50:02 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19990708155002.H90983@enst.fr> Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 15:50:02 +0200 From: Pierre Beyssac To: The Hermit Hacker Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Known MMAP() race conditions ... ? References: <19990708145458.A10059@enst.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from The Hermit Hacker on Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 10:18:35AM -0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 10:18:35AM -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > The newest INN does not have this option, MMAP() is a requirement for > it... Sorry, I didn't know that. Too bad, then. > ah, okay, so you are saying that FreeBSD shouldn't be demonstrated using > software that taxes/tweaks bugs in it? Exactly. If you want to show the strengths of a system, it just doesn't make sense to rely on its weaker parts. > Boy, does that sound like a quick > road to problems... Management: but, when you sold us on this operating > system, it was perfectly stable. Me: ya, well, I picked and choose the > software I ran for the demo, sorry... I didn't say you have to lie about your choice. > Right now, my 'fight' is weak, since all my friend has to do is point out > that 'the MMAP() issue isn't an issue under Linux'...and, as far as I'm Linux has other -- IMHO more annoying -- issues, so I think your friend had better stop bragging. > My opinion on the Linux vs *BSD issue is, and always has been, that *BSD > makes the better *server*...we have very strong networking code, a very > stable kernel and a sane development model...but this MMAP() issue really > hurts :( I think everyone agrees. Now, the problem is that it's not an easy thing to fix, or it would already be fixed. -- Pierre Beyssac pb@enst.fr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message