From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 11 14:21:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA28333 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 14:21:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from schizo.cdsnet.net (schizo.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.32]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA28327 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 14:21:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (mrcpu@localhost) by schizo.cdsnet.net (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA26709; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 14:24:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 14:24:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Jaye Mathisen To: "T. William Wells" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: news server In-Reply-To: <4pkliu$nv9@twwells.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 11 Jun 1996, T. William Wells wrote: > In article , > Jaye Mathisen wrote: > : > I've been avoiding using mmap with inn because of the many systems > : > reporting problems with it. The question: does mmap work with > : No. > > Well, that's definite. :-) > > Next question: I hear about this thing called the "sharedactive > patch". I'm guessing that it has something to do with nnrps > sharing the history file via memory mapping. Is that correct? Actually, they share the active file. > Does it work with 2.1-RELEASE and later? Yes. I think you want to be running -stable for maximum bugfixedness.