Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Date | Thu, 29 Apr 1999 22:23:16 +0100 (BST) | Subject | Re: sed not working on /proc files |
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Hi,
On Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:17:10 -0400, Chip Salzenberg <chip@perlsupport.com> said:
> Hm. Would it be a Bad Thing for mmap to fail on /proc files that > don't report true sizes?
We don't need to support mmap for /proc at all. In fact, according to mmap semantics, we can't: there is no permanent memory reserved for /proc at all.
--Stephen
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