0.34.6 solaris 8 and mmap still

Love lha at stacken.kth.se
Thu Nov 16 09:08:06 CET 2000


Andrew Cohen <cohen at andy.bu.edu> writes:

> Mmap on solaris has had a problem since I started using arla long ago.
> Arla has a test to prevent mmap'ing memory larger than the filesize, but
> from the Solaris mmap manpage, this behavior is allowed. The loader on
> Solaris does this, and so arla can't use shared objects from an afs
> filesystems.

Whee, that explains that weird syscall trace I got when truss:ed my
test-binary. I started to read the elf-loader but got a little but
confused.

Love






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