Re: mkdep patch

ralf@uni-koblenz.de
Fri, 8 Jan 1999 01:20:05 +0100


On Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 07:47:09PM +0300, Alexander V. Lukyanov wrote:

> I encountered a problem with mkdep failing on certain files. It seems to be
> caused by the fact that solaris (2.5) does not allow to map into memory more
> than size of the file rounded up to page boundary. Thus files with size from
> N*pagesize-3 to N*pagesize cause mkdep to fail.

It's hits other Unices at least from the SysV family as well. When I
reported this last Ulrich Drepper sent me cites from standard specs which
indicate that Linux's mmap(2) behaviour is wrong; it should behave like
SysV's in that respect.

Ralf

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