Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Apr 1998 19:47:08 -0700 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: Linux-2.1.98.. |
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Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 21:24:53 -0500 From: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec@shout.net>
This enables the character-reading state machine to run with a very fast inner loop, but I don't know if mapping beyond the end of the file -- perhaps even into a new page -- is valid.
Under Linux it is allowed, and always has been allowed. When you run off the end, you get zero filled pages.
Some OS's like Solaris etc. send you a segfault when you do this.
Later, David S. Miller davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com
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