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From: tedm@agora.rdrop.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: What good are extra vnodes?
Date: 6 Oct 1996 15:55:26 GMT
Organization: Symantec Corp.
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In <5364g1$ba@uriah.heep.sax.de>, j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
>
>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.)
>

Ah, but for those of us who aren't kernel hackers, the $64 question is:

Will mmap() ir INN be fixed enough in the next release of both FreeBSD and INN
so that INN will be able to use it?