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From: mcquill@keen.ccit.duq.edu (Tod McQuillin)
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Subject: INN and NetBSD 0.9
Date: 18 Dec 1993 14:50:27 GMT
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INN 1.4's Install.ms has this to say about 386BSD and mmap():

> If you use 386BSD (the Jolitz port, not the BSDI product) you will
> have to set ACT_STYLE to ``READ''.  If you do not do this then the
> active file will not get updated.  Another work-around is to insert an
> ``msync'' call in the ICDwriteactive routine in innd/icd.c.  This is
> not supported because I consider the 386BSD behavior to be buggy.

Is this also the case with other operating systems based on 386BSD,
like NetBSD and/or FreeBSD?