> > Hm. Would it be a Bad Thing for mmap to fail on /proc files that
> > don't report true sizes?
>
> We don't need to support mmap for /proc at all. In fact, according to
> mmap semantics, we can't: there is no permanent memory reserved for
> /proc at all.
Well, this breaks every program that uses libc file accesses.
Simon
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