On Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:17:10 -0400, Chip Salzenberg
<chip@perlsupport.com> said:
> Hm. Would it be a Bad Thing for mmap to fail on /proc files that
> don't report true sizes?
We don't need to support mmap for /proc at all. In fact, according to
mmap semantics, we can't: there is no permanent memory reserved for
/proc at all.
--Stephen
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