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From: tom@uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: INND1.4+MMAP=BROKEN MESS
Date: 16 Nov 1995 05:58:22 GMT
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In article <489pdd$21u@pilhuhn.pilhuhn.de>, hwr@pilhuhn.deà says...
>
>tom@uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius) writes:
>
>>  Err.. if you look at the code, mmap() is only for updating the active file. 
 Not used for 
>>history at all.
>
>*beeeep* Wrong. If you compile innd with -DMMAP then mmap() is also
>used for the history ...

  The innd sources only contain references to mmap for active file updating.  
The dbz library is used to manage the history database and it has no references 
to mmap either.

Tom