From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 18:37:29 -0700 Subject: Re: mmap64? From: Jason Titus Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: riel@nl.linux.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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 > Reply-To: riel@nl.linux.org > Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 18:30:35 -0300 (BRST) > To: Jason Titus > 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 > -- > The Internet is not a network of computers. It is a network > of people. That is its real strength. > > Wanna talk about the kernel? irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies > http://www.conectiva.com/ http://www.surriel.com/ > > -- > To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in > the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, > see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/ > -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/