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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.5, INN 1.4unoff4, and mmap() Date: 15 Jul 1996 22:42:46 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4sehh6$hn4@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <mandrews.837437077@bob.wittenberg.edu> <4sdk50$9cp@news.demos.su> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E andy@sun-fox.demos.su (Andrew A. Vasilyev) wrote: > In 2.2-Current (a week before 2.1.5-R) mmap() was broken [...] (Note: this is NO claim that mmap() would either work or were broken in 2.1.5R, but:) Your conclusion is wrong. 2.1.5 is from a totally different branch of the source tree. The VM subsystem in 2.2-current has undergone many changes, but only a few bugfixes have been retrofitted into the 2.1.X branch. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)