From owner-freebsd-current Sun Sep 27 23:32:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA09940 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 23:32:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA09935 for ; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 23:32:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr07.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA18042; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 23:32:07 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr07.primenet.com(206.165.6.207) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd017975; Sun Sep 27 23:31:59 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr07.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA22753; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 23:31:55 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199809280631.XAA22753@usr07.primenet.com> Subject: Re: VM mmap file extension bug still exists? To: dg@root.com Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 06:31:55 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199809280246.TAA02059@implode.root.com> from "David Greenman" at Sep 27, 98 07:46:52 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >I don't think this was committed? > > No, it wasn't. I think the change is wrong, but I need to look more > carefully at it to be sure. If it does anything at all, it probably only > narrows the problem, making it even more difficult to find and fix in the > future. I don't think your other proposed solution is correct, either, but > I'm not ready to say that with any confidence. It's definitely a workaround. The real fix is to add a parementer to the mapping function. The real fix is to set the size based on the real size, not rounded to a page boundary. I think the race window is actually NULL. Would you commit a change based on a adding a parameter? I think I could get whistle to pay for the time, if your answer was "yes". Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message