Hello Justin, > > Hmmm -- it is all a bit strange. There are some other factors > > going on that aren't obvious. Anyway, I've added the following > > text for man-pages-2.32: > > > > m (since glibc 2.3) > > Attempt to access the file using mmap(2), > > rather than I/O system calls (read(2), > > write(2)). Currently, use of mmap(2) is only > > attempted for a file opened for reading. > > > > Thanks for you report and all the testing. > It occurs to me that this could be a part of the Debian patch; either > something not yet included upstream, or included in a release later > than glibc 2.3, but with the patch included by Debian anyway. > > Google didn't reveal too much, and there's nothing in the .diff.gz > indicating that this is true .. I donno.
It doesn't seem Debian specific -- I mean that I can see the relevant code for 'm' in a vanilla glibc tree. Oh well. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk maintainer of Linux man pages Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 Want to help with man page maintenance? Grab the latest tarball at ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/manpages/, read the HOWTOHELP file and grep the source files for 'FIXME'. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
