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From: Anton Blanchard <anton@linuxcare.com.au>
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 21:29:31 +1100
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>, "Marco d'Itri" <md@Linux.IT>,
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Subject: Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12
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> This all only matters to things that do shared writable mmap's.
> 
> Almost nothing does that. innd is (sadly) the only regular thing that uses
> this, which is why it's always innd that breaks, even if everything else
> works.

btw samba 2.2 makes extensive use of shared writable mmaps (well it uses tdb
which uses shared writable mmaps). In fact it picked up a bug with virtual
aliasing of shared writable mmaps on sparc64 recently.

Anton
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