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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.5, INN 1.4unoff4, and mmap()
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 11:17:30 -0500
Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine
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J Wunsch wrote:
> 
> andy@sun-fox.demos.su (Andrew A. Vasilyev) wrote:
> 
> >   Your message means you probably add new bug (or not fixed old)
> >   in Current branch. Period. And why am I wrong - I only want mmap(),
> >   for the last 1.5 years. :(((
> 
> If you run -current, you are expected to subscribe to the mailing list
> freebsd-current@freebsd.org.  John Dyson has been calling more than
> once for people who have problems with the existing mmap(), in order
> to analyze and fix these problems.  It's a bit hard to expect him
> fixing problem he doesn't know about, or he cannot reproduce.
> 
Our mmap (btw, in -current) passes EVERY test that I can throw at it.
I have been studying the code for a long time, and the problem still
evades me.  I believe that it has to do with changing the size of the
active file, but at this point, I am at a loss.

John