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Re: sed not working on /proc files

To: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: sed not working on /proc files
From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 16:45:53 +0100 (BST)
Cc: geier@phobos.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de, sct@redhat.com, chip@perlsupport.com, jeremy@goop.org, monnier+lists/linux/kernel@tequila.cs.yale.edu,linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, root@chaos.analogic.com
In-Reply-To: <m10ef0k-0007U2C@the-village.bc.nu> from "Alan Cox" at May 4, 99 02:13:21 pm
Sender: owner-linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu

> > Well, this breaks every program that uses libc file accesses.
> So fix the buggy libc. Relying on mmap() being available is broken

To save a thousand follow ups - the glibc code does do the right thing but
the kernel thinks any 0 length mmap succeeds and doesnt error it. So its
a kernel funny

Alan



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