A note about HAVE_MMAP

John E. Malmberg wb8tyw at qsl.net
Wed Sep 29 15:08:18 GMT 2004


In article <CF0913E9C3D53D4E94DE47FDE25C633D0504909C at hermes.cofiroute.com>,
 COLLOT Jean-Yves <jean-yves.collot at cofiroute.fr> writes:

> I don't really understand what you are referring to, but I am positive
> that there is not any use of HAVE_MMAP in any C file of Samba/VMS version
> 2.2.8. There is no any call to mmap() either, and the "mmap" parameter of
> SMB.CONF is used only for setting (or unsetting) flags when calling TDB_xxxx
> routines, those flags being ignored by the new Dave Jones' specific TDB
> routines.

The routines were present in the 2.0.x stream, but indeed, I do not find them
in your 2.2.8 source code drops.

So that eliminates one possibility of the data corruption for VFC files.

-John
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