On Monday 13 August 2001 23:17, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 11:03:50PM -0700, Ryan Bloom wrote: > > Well, looking at MM, it decides to use IPCSHM on my linux box. I was > > unable to make my machine work when using MAP_ANON. I also looked at > > what we did for Apache-1.3. We used SHMGET for Linux on 1.3. > > > > This makes me think we should be using SHMGET on linux. I just did what > > I needed to, to get Linux up and running again. If you can make MAP_ANON > > work, great. Otherwise, for right now, we have a working server. :-) > > Ah, Mandrake 7.2, right? Linux 2.2-based... Aha. > > I wonder if they fixed MAP_ANON in Linux 2.4. MAP_ANON worked fine > with a 2.4 series kernel. So, we could add an override for <2.4 (what > about 2.3?) to not use MAP_ANON. I wonder why SHMGET wasn't working - > it worked fine on Solaris (so the code should supposedly work on Linux). > > Wouldn't /dev/zero be a better choice than a temporary file? I think > even 2.2 has support for that. > > I'll try testing with a Linux 2.2 machine (hopefully soon). If I can > figure out the right way to avoid using MAP_ANON in 2.2 (or other > brokenness), I'll revert to the previous order with appropriate > safeguards. -- justin
Okay, sounds good. As for the options other than MMAP_TMP, I didn't really do a lot of testing. I removed as many warnings as I could, and just tried to figure out what you were trying to do with the configure script. Obviously, I got it completely wrong. :-) Ryan ______________________________________________________________ Ryan Bloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Covalent Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------
