On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 11:35:00PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: > I can't think of any way dpkg could legally provoke this behaviour, > so I'm guessing that there is a bug somewhere that dpkg just happens > to provoke.
Turned out to be a kernel bug in arch-specific mmap code. If you mmap an empty file, the file is left busy. Fix posted to linux-ia64. Richard
