Date: 12 Jun 1996 15:19:20 -0400 From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: news server Message-ID: <4pn57o$dq5@twwells.com> References: <Pine.BSD.3.91.960612083942.13977C-100000@buffnet7.buffnet.net> <19282.834601932@palmer.demon.co.uk>
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In article <19282.834601932@palmer.demon.co.uk>, Gary Palmer <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote: : cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.com : : Stephen Hovey wrote in message ID : <Pine.BSD.3.91.960612083942.13977C-100000@buffnet7.buffnet.net>: : > That sounds the same as what happens with MMAP : : Surprising. shared_active uses MMAP :-) How do you thing it does it's : sharing? The usual problem with mmap on other systems, as I understand it, is that the modify time of the file isn't updated on write, which meant that newsreaders wouldn't know that it has changed. This would not affect sharing among newsreaders....
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