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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: What good are extra vnodes? Date: 6 Oct 1996 15:15:27 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <538ief$823@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <52evvt$s6b@nntp1.best.com> <52tknn$3hg@news.demos.su> <5364g1$ba@uriah.heep.sax.de> <5368qb$7tu@verdi.nethelp.no> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E sthaug@nethelp.no (Steinar Haug) wrote: > [J Wunsch] > > | Btw., the mmap() in -current is said to be no longer broken. However, > | it now triggers a brokeness in the usage of mmap() in INN. (IIRC, INN > | tries to change the size of the active file while it's being mmap'ed.) > > Do you have any more info about this? It would be very interesting to get > INN to work with mmap(). I eventually forgot about the hairy details. If you've got access to the -hackers and -current mail archives, you should be able to follow the old discussions. (Perhaps even more on this on the -isp mailing list, but i'm not subscribed there, so i don't know.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)