Re: sed not working on /proc files

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 4 May 1999 14:13:21 +0100 (BST)

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> > 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.
>
> Well, this breaks every program that uses libc file accesses.

So fix the buggy libc. Relying on mmap() being available is broken

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