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Re: kern/38889
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 03:00:02AM +0000, YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
> 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
Understood, but that could be properly designed/implamented later. I
think it's better to just disallow mmap(bdev) on netbsd-6.
(I also think that genfs is a wrong place to handle mmap(bdev). IIUC, bdev's
data has nothing to do with its hosting mount/filesystem. Handling VREG and
VBLK in one place sounds very odd to me.)
>
> please keep gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost in Cc: so that it's filed in
> gnats.
>
> YAMAMOTO Takashi
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