From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 15 09:51:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA20790 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 09:51:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA20785 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 09:51:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA04914 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 09:51:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199704151651.JAA04914@austin.polstra.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: mmap vs. disk errors Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 09:51:15 -0700 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk What happens if an application has a file mapped into memory and tries to access part of it, but the kernel can't bring the pages into memory because of a disk error (bad block in the file)? -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth