Re: INN doesn't work on pre-2.1.89-4 (mmap problem ?)

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
1 Mar 1998 05:08:07 GMT


In article <19980301043158.15831@cc.jyu.fi>,
Jani Hakala <jahakala@st.jyu.fi> wrote:
>
>innd didn't start and tracing it gave this:
>
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>open("/etc/news/overview.fmt", O_RDONLY) = 15
>fstat(15, {st_mode=0, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
>mmap(0, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40208000
>read(15, "## $Revision: 1.3 $\n## overvi"..., 4096) = 388
>read(15, "", 4096) = 0
>lseek(15, 0, SEEK_SET) = 0
>read(15, "## $Revision: 1.3 $\n## overvi"..., 4096) = 388
>read(15, "", 4096) = 0
>close(15) = 0
>munmap(0x40208000, 4096) = 0
>open("/var/lib/news/active", O_RDWR) = 15
>fcntl(15, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
>fstat(15, {st_mode=0, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
>mmap(0, 131072, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 15, 0) = 0x40211000
>--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) ---
>
>In pre-2.1.89-3 it worked.

I fixed _one_ silly bug wrt writeback to shared files in pre-5, can you
check that one out? I certainly hope that was the only major one,

Linus

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