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Re: use result of open(2) to check for presence

From
Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 5, 2006, 18:07 UTC
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<20060105180715.GA6112@steel.home>
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Morten Welinder, Thu, Jan 05, 2006 17:45:27 +0100:
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> Config files always tend to grow, but I do agree that 4GB config files stretches
> credibility a bit.
> 
> However, empty ones are not unlikely and then mmap will fail.
>

Shouldn't be a problem: the code in question does not seem to do anything for empty files and wont even touch the result of mmap.

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