Kevin Day wrote:
>
> I mmap() files in, then copy them to a device. This works great except when
> someone tries to change that file during the copy. If the size of the file
> shrinks, I'll SIGBUS or SIGSEGV when i try to touch past the new file size.
> So, i setup a signal handler and longjmp into some recovery code.
>
> Perhaps there's a better way, but I don't consider this a bug really, and
> i'll get a SEGV. :)
MAP_PRIVATE?
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