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SubjectRe: mmap: is default non-populating behavior stable?
Rik van Riel wrote:
> Peter Zijlstra wrote:

>> The exact interaction of mmap() and truncate() I'm not exactly clear on.
>
> Truncate will reduce the size of the mmaps on the file to
> match the new file size, so processes accessing beyond the
> end of file will get a segmentation fault (SIGSEGV).

I suspect Peter was talking about using truncate() to set the initial
file size, effectively increasing rather than reducing it.

Chris


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