weirdo bug

[Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]]

>>>>> "Assar" == Assar Westerlund <assar at stacken.kth.se> writes:

Assar> sperber at informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) writes:
>> Both my co-worker and I see a weird bug connected with Emacs's dumping
>> with arla 0.32 on FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE:
>> 
>> Symptom is that the dumped Emacs (or XEmacs) or a copy of it will
>> execute a few times, and then report an invalid file format and
>> refuse.  The refusal persists.  "file" reports a Windows COFF file, of
>> all things ...  Methinks arla is not writing out the correct data, and
>> things only work until the cache gets re-updated from the server.
>> I'll try to provide more data soon.

Assar> Can you try the appended patch and tell us if that solves the problem?

No, the problem's still there.

This seems related to mmap somehow: My co-workers sees this with
install, I see it with XEmacs's unexelf.c, both of which use mmap to
write the output files.

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