Steffen Daode Nurpmeso <sdao...@googlemail.com> added the comment:
What do you think - i think this issue can really be closed now.
I'll attach a final 11277.5.diff which has a less irritated and
thus better understandable comment than .4.diff.
I'll also drop .3 and .4.
A lot of noise again 8|
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Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file21798/11277.5.diff
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diff --git a/Doc/library/mmap.rst b/Doc/library/mmap.rst
--- a/Doc/library/mmap.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/mmap.rst
@@ -86,6 +86,10 @@
defaults to 0. *offset* must be a multiple of the PAGESIZE or
ALLOCATIONGRANULARITY.
+ To ensure validity of the created memory mapping the file specified
+ by the descriptor *fileno* is internally automatically synchronized
+ with physical backing store on Mac OS X and OpenVMS.
+
This example shows a simple way of using :class:`mmap`::
import mmap
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_zlib.py b/Lib/test/test_zlib.py
--- a/Lib/test/test_zlib.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_zlib.py
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
with open(support.TESTFN, "wb+") as f:
f.seek(_4G)
f.write(b"asdf")
- with open(support.TESTFN, "rb") as f:
+ f.flush()
self.mapping = mmap.mmap(f.fileno(), 0, access=mmap.ACCESS_READ)
def tearDown(self):
diff --git a/Modules/mmapmodule.c b/Modules/mmapmodule.c
--- a/Modules/mmapmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/mmapmodule.c
@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@
#ifndef MS_WINDOWS
#define UNIX
+# ifdef __APPLE__
+# include <fcntl.h>
+# endif
#endif
#ifdef MS_WINDOWS
@@ -1122,6 +1125,12 @@
"mmap invalid access parameter.");
}
+#ifdef __APPLE__
+ /* Issue 11277: fsync(2) is not enough on OS X - a special, OS X specific
+ * fcntl(2) is necessary to force DISKSYNC and get around mmap(2) bug */
+ if (fd != -1)
+ (void)fcntl(fd, F_FULLFSYNC);
+#endif
#ifdef HAVE_FSTAT
# ifdef __VMS
/* on OpenVMS we must ensure that all bytes are written to the file */
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