Re: mmap64?

[Jason Titus <jason.titus@av.com>]

Well, seems like if we are allowing processes to access 3+GB, we should be
able to mmap a similar range.  Also, I don't know too much about the PAE 36
bit PIII stuff but I had thought it might give us some additional address
space...

Jason
jason.titus@av.com

> From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
> Reply-To: riel@nl.linux.org
> Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 18:30:35 -0300 (BRST)
> To: Jason Titus <jason.titus@av.com>
> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
> Subject: Re: mmap64?
> 
> On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Jason Titus wrote:
> 
>> We have been doing some work with > 2GB files under x86 linux and have run
>> into a fair number of issues (instability, non-functioning stat calls, etc).
>> 
>> One that just came up recently is whether it is possible to
>> memory map >2GB files.  Is this a possibility, or will this
>> never happen on 32 bit platforms?
> 
> Eurhmm, exactly where in the address space of your process are
> you going to map this file?
> 
> Rik
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