On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Tom Lane wrote:
> Just to throw some additional wrenches into the gears: some platforms
> (eg HPPA) have strong restrictions on where you can mmap stuff.
> I quote some interesting material from the HPUX mmap(2) man page below.
> Possibly these restrictions could be worked around, but it looks
> painful.
Very painful indeed. Probably it would be much easier to build a little
mmap-type interface on top of the current system and use that instead of
mmap on such a system. I wonder how many other systems are this screwed up?
cjs
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