>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Davidsen)
>Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> warned:
>> Linux-2.4 recently added support for correcty working mmap() which i not present in
>> eralier versions of Linux.
>Having run production on 2.2 systems for several years, using mmap(), I
>will note that in general mmap() did work, 2.4 just caught some uncommon
>cases. I'm not sure which one was the problem here.
Linux had a half hearted mmap(). One of the major uses: mmap() for shared memory
did not work. As SYSv shared memory is limited in use and amount
and also has implementation bugs on some OS, cdrecord prefers the modern
mmap() before SvsV shared mem if available.
J�rg
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