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#! rnews 1341 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!blackbush.xlink.net!gtnduss1.du.gtn.com!www.punkt.de!not-for-mail From: "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Q: mmap() in 2.2.0R and 2.2.1R Date: 21 Apr 1997 08:00:56 GMT Organization: WEB Internet Services Lines: 27 Message-ID: <01bc4e2a$436ad8c0$f3e94dc2@hugo09.ticsoft.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: hugo09.ticsoft.de X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39433 Hi all! I'm still running 2.2.0 on my home box, planning to upgrade the kernel to 2.2.1 this week. Yesterday I encountered strange problems with INN 1.5.1 (did I hear someone say "Oh no, ..."? ;-) It didn't know the newsgroup de.comp.sys.mac, though I explicitly created it with ctlinnd a few weeks ago, and "grep mac /usr/local/news/lib/active" gave the expected result. After an hour of poking around the system, I loaded the active file into vi and, bingo, random binary garbage somewhere in the middle. Of course, the port of INN sets ACT_STYLE to MMAP. Now, is this due to the "minor flaws" in the Adaptec driver, that some people reoprted for 2.2.0R? Is it safe to use mmap() with 2.2.1? Thanks, Patrick