require a working mmap for Samba 4.0?
Volker Lendecke
Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE
Mon Aug 15 00:44:09 MDT 2011
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 11:04:20AM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 00:46 +0000, simo wrote:
>
> > Btw, while making them I noticed that we test mmap and set HAVE_MMAP
> > accordingly, but then we do not wrap all mmap calls withing HAVE_MMAP
> > ifdefs. Not sure we actually can work w/o mmap, so I wonder if we
> > shouldn't rather turn the configure test into a fatal failure if mmap is
> > not found.
>
> I would support this, but what do we then do with HP-UX which is on the
> mmap blacklist?
The reason why HP/UX is on the mmap blacklist is afaik the
lack of coherence between mmap and read/write calls. This
should not matter for the use case Simo has.
Volker
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