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authorDominic Dunlop <domo@computer.org>2000-11-11 19:20:32 +0100
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2000-11-11 18:37:52 +0000
commit2f4b48000e026c1d24d84752f7d3b1e2de5285d5 (patch)
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parentaaa2bbb1892bb3fc5334c4dc71d8a416000854b4 (diff)
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MachTen doesn't really do mmap() and munmap().
Subject: [PATCHES Bleadperl] Re: PerlIO - what all of you can all do. Message-Id: <p04320401b632c4c3335b@[192.168.1.4]> p4raw-id: //depot/perl@7649
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diff --git a/hints/machten.sh b/hints/machten.sh
index 69f16355c2..3a311a1746 100644
--- a/hints/machten.sh
+++ b/hints/machten.sh
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@
# Martijn Koster <m.koster@webcrawler.com>
# Richard Yeh <rcyeh@cco.caltech.edu>
#
+# Deny system's false claims to support mmap() and munmap(); note
+# also that Sys V IPC (re)disabled by jhi due to continuing inadequacy
+# -- Dominic Dunlop <domo@computer.org> 001111
# Remove dynamic loading libraries from search; enable SysV IPC with
# MachTen 4.1.4 and above; define SYSTEM_ALIGN_BYTES for old MT versions
# -- Dominic Dunlop <domo@computer.org> 000224
@@ -197,6 +200,11 @@ if test "$d_shm" = ""; then
esac
fi
+# MachTen has stubs for mmap and munmap(), but they just result in the
+# caller being killed on the grounds of "Bad system call"
+d_mmap=${d_mmap:-undef}
+d_munmap=${d_munmap:-undef}
+
# Get rid of some extra libs which it takes Configure a tediously
# long time never to find on MachTen, or which break perl
set `echo X "$libswanted "|sed -e 's/ net / /' -e 's/ socket / /' \
@@ -228,6 +236,8 @@ During Configure, you may see the message
as well as similar messages concerning \$d_sem and \$d_shm. Select the
default answers: MachTen 4.1 appears to provide System V IPC support,
but it is incomplete and buggy: perl should be built without it.
+Similar considerations apply to memory mapping of files, controlled
+by \$d_mmap and \$d_munmap.
Similarly, when you see