Re: kern/38889

[yamt%mwd.biglobe.ne.jp@localhost (YAMAMOTO Takashi)]

hi,

> I wonder if we can completely disallow mmap'ing block devices?  I suspect
> it has never worked nor needed by anyone - otherwise why such a serious
> problem has been open for a long time!

i don't know.  but it might be useful for applications which want to
do mmap+send for zero copy.  eg. an iscsi target

please keep gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost in Cc: so that it's filed in gnats.

YAMAMOTO Takashi