mmap woes on MacOS X

Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor] sperber at informatik.uni-tuebingen.de
Mon Oct 15 17:08:59 CEST 2001


>>>>> "Magnus" == Magnus Ahltorp <ahltorp at nada.kth.se> writes:

>> arla 0.35.6 exhibits similar problems on MacOS X 10.1 as it once did
>> on FreeBSD with everything mmap-related, i.e. "cp" sees older
>> versions of files than, say, "cat". Is this due to X's native mmap
>> problems?

Magnus> Is that on the same file?

Yes.  On FreeBSD, the problem used to be that cp uses mmap whereas cat
doesn't.  Just a wild guess.

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