Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 12:22:06 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: toor@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, mmead@glock.com Subject: Re: Working on the mmap thing Message-ID: <199603161922.MAA17708@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199603152252.WAA05170@dyson.iquest.net> from "John S. Dyson" at Mar 15, 96 10:52:16 pm
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> I have taken Terry's comments into consideration regarding the > MAP_INHERIT thing. Unfortunately, we do alot of mapping in the > current kernel assuming that a map is inherited by default. > My (hopefully) fix for the snapshot is to by default inherit > for mappings that are MAP_FILE on regular files, and not to > inherit for MAP_FILE on device mappings. This will be an > approximately correct fix. I am working on it, and have > found the 1.2 accelx demo. Will be checking it all out tonight. > I would really like for those that can test it to try it out > before Jordan's snapshot. I would like for us to make > "some" progress on a fix. Watch out -- I screwed up big time; hopefully you interpreted "fork" as "exec" re MAP_INHERIT. I was reading Sun man pages at the time; I have a larger post on the whole thing immediately previous to this one. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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