Re: 1352 NUL bytes at the end of a page?

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, 17 May 2004, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> 
> Note though that the stdio library uses a writeable mmap to implement
> fwrite.

It does? Whee. Then I'll have to agree with Andrew - if there is a path 
that is more likely to have bugs, it's trying to do writes with mmap and 
ftruncate.

Who came up with that braindead idea? Is it some crazed Mach developer 
that infiltrated the glibc development group?

		Linus
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