> 
> 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?
> 

This has the undesired effect of me not noticing that the file changed then. 

Kevin


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