Messages in this thread |  | | | From | (Alan Cox) | | Subject | Re: sed not working on /proc files | | Date | Tue, 4 May 1999 16:45:53 +0100 (BST) |
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> > Well, this breaks every program that uses libc file accesses. > So fix the buggy libc. Relying on mmap() being available is broken
To save a thousand follow ups - the glibc code does do the right thing but the kernel thinks any 0 length mmap succeeds and doesnt error it. So its a kernel funny
Alan
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