From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
"Eugene V. Lyubimkin" <jackyf.devel@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
hugh <hugh@veritas.com>
Subject: Re: mmap: is default non-populating behavior stable?
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:56:37 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <491070B5.2060209@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <490F8005.9020708@redhat.com>
Rik van Riel wrote:
> Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> The exact interaction of mmap() and truncate() I'm not exactly clear on.
>
> Truncate will reduce the size of the mmaps on the file to
> match the new file size, so processes accessing beyond the
> end of file will get a segmentation fault (SIGSEGV).
I suspect Peter was talking about using truncate() to set the initial
file size, effectively increasing rather than reducing it.
Chris
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-04 15:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <490F73CD.4010705@gmail.com>
2008-11-03 22:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-11-03 22:49 ` Rik van Riel
2008-11-04 15:56 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2008-11-04 16:07 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-11-04 16:28 ` Alan Cox
2008-11-04 16:51 ` Eugene V. Lyubimkin
2008-11-05 16:42 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-11-05 16:54 ` Alan Cox
2008-11-05 17:50 ` Eugene V. Lyubimkin
2008-11-05 23:31 ` Hugh Dickins
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