Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 Apr 1999 12:48:53 +0200 (CEST) | From | Simon Richter <> | Subject | Re: sed not working on /proc files |
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On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> > Hm. Would it be a Bad Thing for mmap to fail on /proc files that > > don't report true sizes? > > We don't need to support mmap for /proc at all. In fact, according to > mmap semantics, we can't: there is no permanent memory reserved for > /proc at all.
Well, this breaks every program that uses libc file accesses.
Simon
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