On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 07:49:34AM -0000, Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
> jerenkrantz    02/04/28 00:49:34
> 
>   Modified:    .        configure.in CHANGES
>   Log:
>   Not all platforms can mmap /dev/zero, so we need to do an explicit check
>   for that.  If that were to fail, then make it appear as /dev/zero never
>   existed in the first place.
>   
>   PR: 8537

Sorry for the late reply. Do we have a HAVE_DEV_ZERO-like define
somewhere, and if so would this mean that an OS that had /dev/zero but
didn't support mmap(/dev/zero) would not have that defined anymore? Other
than that I think this is a good way to test for mmap(/dev/zero).

-aaron

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