On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 04:03:01PM -0500, Leonardo E. Reiter wrote: > indeed mmap() is used in the code. This is unfortunate that it cannot be > used. It's a really high performance way to achieve what we want here, and > very safe for the use-case. Of course the only medium we support in the > product that uses this is filesystem, so I see your point. I'll see about > using some different mechanism.
using shared writeable mmaps for disk I/O is never a safe approach, as there is no way for sane error handling.
