> > This is correct behaviour actually. The fill with zero thing was very much
> > a Linuxism.
>
> Are you sure? The remaining part of the last mapped page has to be
> zeroed. (ReiserFS vor 2.2.x occasionally barfs on this one. Has it
Yes, but not more pages
> Is it really impossible to mmap() a chunk which is larger than the
> file on most other systems?
Yes. You lseek the file, write 1 byte then mmap it. Or in Linux ftruncate it
bigger and go. In fact on Linux you can ftruncate then mremap bigger
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