On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 06:21:04PM +0100, Ludovic Court�s wrote: > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:41:47PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > They should fall back to normal read/write if mmap fails. > > Gcc does not actually fall back to normal read/write. Should we ask them to > fix that?
I think that would be proper. > > Why can't you use libpager? > > This is a netfs-based filesystem (tarfs). So far, I've never felt like > needing libpager and that's why I'm not using it currently (however, you might > be able to find good reasons/ways to use it for this particular filesystem?). mmap works with memory objects, which are paged by the server. libpager is a library to manage such external pagers for memory objects. If you want to implement io_map in your server, you should feel the need to use libpager ;) Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann The Hurd http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de/ _______________________________________________ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd
