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diff --git a/open_issues/libnetfs_io_map.mdwn b/open_issues/libnetfs_io_map.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b340de90 --- /dev/null +++ b/open_issues/libnetfs_io_map.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +[[!meta title="libnetfs: io_map"]] + +[[!tag open_issue_hurd]] + +This hampers [[hurd/translator/nfs]] usability, for example. + +IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-03-14: + + <civodul> i just realized that ld.so uses mmap unconditionally + <civodul> so executables or shared libs can't be used off a netfs-based + file system + <civodul> that's annoying + <tschwinge> civodul: Do you know what it takes to fix libnetfs? I have no + idea. + <tschwinge> Never looked at it. + <civodul> tschwinge: implementing io_map + <civodul> but i think the idea is that io_map typically isn't convenient + for network file systems + <civodul> which is why it doesn't have it + <civodul> the GCS says "thou shall not require mmap" ;-) |