Re: mmap beyond file end (2.4.0-test1 with Reiserfs 3.6.6)

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sun May 28 2000 - 14:43:17 EST

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> fill pages beyond the file end with zeroes, Linux 2.4.0-test1 and the last
> few prepatches before report an "Address alignment exception" when one is
> accessing pages beyond file end. I tried to find a way to patch this
> misbehavoir away, but didn't succeed.

This is correct behaviour actually. The fill with zero thing was very much
a Linuxism.

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