"Jamie Gennis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm new to the hurd and have been browsing around the source tree > trying to become familiar with how things work in there. I came > across an "/* XXX should work! */" in trans/null.c's S_io_map() and > thought this might be a good place to start coding something. > However, I'm not sure what the behavior for mmap'ing /dev/null > should be, and Marcus said to ask here.
Well, that's part of the problem, and why it should work but doesn't! Each different mapper of /dev/null should get a different memory object which maps anonymous memory. That requires adding a new interface to the default pager to allow the creation of anonymous objects. (There is an interface now; maybe it would work.) _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
