Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 17:38:19 -0500 (EST) From: perlsta <bright@cygnus.rush.net> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: portability of shm, mmap, pipes and socket IPC Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990210173640.10060Q-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <199902101959.LAA85684@apollo.backplane.com>
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On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > :> true on all implementations that I know of. It is also appropriate - > :> the validity of the mmap()'d data only extends to the logical end of > :> file. > : > :Yes, yes, that's not the problem. > : > :The problem is that INN apparently still fails when using mmap without > :msync. The utility of msync is overrated; the code does not actually > :do what the manual page claims it does, in any case. > > 'apparently still fails'. In otherwords, you aren't sure whether > it's a bug in INN or a bug in the OS. You don't know why exactly > INN is not working, but you are blaming FreeBSD. > > There could be a bug in FreeBSD, but unless someone can track it down > a little better then "Well, this one program doesn't work so it MUST > be a bug in FreeBSD", there isn't much we can do about it now is there! > From where I sit, I don't see any bugs. Unless something was fixed recently i distinctly remember seeing email about this on the lists, check the archives. I really don't remeber seeing a resolution besaideds telling the person to compile INN not to use mmap(). -Alfred > > -Matt > Matthew Dillon > <dillon@backplane.com> > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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