Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12

From: Anton Blanchard (anton@linuxcare.com.au)
Date: Wed Dec 27 2000 - 05:29:31 EST


 
> This all only matters to things that do shared writable mmap's.
>
> Almost nothing does that. innd is (sadly) the only regular thing that uses
> this, which is why it's always innd that breaks, even if everything else
> works.

btw samba 2.2 makes extensive use of shared writable mmaps (well it uses tdb
which uses shared writable mmaps). In fact it picked up a bug with virtual
aliasing of shared writable mmaps on sparc64 recently.

Anton
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