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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....