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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!news.gmi.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: mmap() problem [940412-SNAP, pdksh] Date: 10 May 1995 21:35:37 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 41 Message-ID: <3orbj9$i72@helena.MT.net> References: <3onilv$5jb$1@usenet.pa.dec.com> Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net In article <3onilv$5jb$1@usenet.pa.dec.com>, Ed Randall <erandall@reo.dec.com> wrote: > >Over the weekend I finally erased Linux and began installing FreeBSD >from the 950412-SNAP distribution. Having struggled through a few >initial partitioning problems (don't do too many things in "disklabel", >it crashes !) I finally got it all up & running. > >Problem #1 - all my old scripts don't work, 'cos I always write 'em >in ksh; Not my problem. :-) >Problem #2 - During the "configure" script, it hangs when scanning for >"mmap()". This is a known bug and is fixed in the -current sources and will be fixed in the 2.0.5 release. >"Oh well, it's obviously broken" I thought, and hacked "configure" so >that "HAVE_MMAP" doesn't get defined, and the problematical test is skipped. >I now have a working "ksh", all seems well. Good. >But what of the miscreant "mmap()" ? Is this a known bug, or should it >work ? Has anybody else had similar problems when running the "configure" >scripts provided with most ports ? mmap() was mostly fixed in that SNAP, but unfortunately mostly is not 100%. I won't say it's 100% in the -current sources, but it's pretty darn close since there haven't been any more bugs found since the above bug was fixed. Nate -- nate@sneezy.sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations nate@trout.sri.MT.net | work #: (406) 449-7662 | Loving life in God's country, the great state of home #: (406) 443-7063 | Montana.