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Re: mmap unuseable for interactive application?

From	Peter <excessphase@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject	Re: mmap unuseable for interactive application?
Date	2011-07-17 14:13 -0700
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On Jul 17, 11:40 am, Rainer Weikusat <rweiku...@mssgmbh.com> wrote:

> > So -- not only should one not use mmap to write into a sparse file
> > (as one may get an unuseable SIGSEGV/SIGBUS for "out of diskspace"
>
> Nope. For 'out of memory' ...

Aegypt?

> > (please don't suggest setjmp/longjmp to me)).
>
> ... but it DON'T WANT to handle that ...

Please explain:
You don't want to deal with setjmp/longjmp (I also don't) or
you don't want to deal with "out of diskspace" and rather let the
application crash instead of giving an error message.

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mmap unuseable for interactive application? Peter <excessphase@gmail.com> - 2011-07-16 16:23 -0700
  Re: mmap unuseable for interactive application? Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2011-07-17 10:52 +0100
    Re: mmap unuseable for interactive application? pacman@kosh.dhis.org (Alan Curry) - 2011-07-17 20:59 +0000
      Re: mmap unuseable for interactive application? Peter <excessphase@gmail.com> - 2011-07-17 14:05 -0700
        Re: mmap unuseable for interactive application? Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2011-07-18 12:45 +0100
          Re: mmap unuseable for interactive application? Peter <excessphase@gmail.com> - 2011-07-18 07:30 -0700
            Re: mmap unuseable for interactive application? Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2011-07-18 15:42 +0100
              Re: mmap unuseable for interactive application? Peter <excessphase@gmail.com> - 2011-07-18 07:46 -0700
                Re: mmap unuseable for interactive application? Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2011-07-18 15:50 +0100
                Re: mmap unuseable for interactive application? Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2011-07-18 19:17 +0100
                Re: mmap unuseable for interactive application? Peter <excessphase@gmail.com> - 2011-07-18 12:49 -0700
                Re: mmap unuseable for interactive application? Peter <excessphase@gmail.com> - 2011-07-18 12:51 -0700
                Re: mmap unuseable for interactive application? Peter <excessphase@gmail.com> - 2011-07-18 13:08 -0700
                Re: mmap unuseable for interactive application? Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2011-07-18 22:24 +0100
                Re: mmap unuseable for interactive application? Peter <excessphase@gmail.com> - 2011-07-18 15:04 -0700
                Re: mmap unuseable for interactive application? Peter <excessphase@gmail.com> - 2011-07-18 15:21 -0700
                Re: mmap unuseable for interactive application? Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2011-07-19 13:59 +0100
              Re: mmap unuseable for interactive application? Peter <excessphase@gmail.com> - 2011-07-18 07:50 -0700
      Re: mmap unuseable for interactive application? Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2011-07-18 10:59 +0100
        Re: mmap unuseable for interactive application? pacman@kosh.dhis.org (Alan Curry) - 2011-07-18 20:14 +0000
  Re: mmap unuseable for interactive application? Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2011-07-17 19:40 +0100
    Re: mmap unuseable for interactive application? Peter <excessphase@gmail.com> - 2011-07-17 14:11 -0700
      Re: mmap unuseable for interactive application? Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2011-07-18 12:46 +0100
    Re: mmap unuseable for interactive application? Peter <excessphase@gmail.com> - 2011-07-17 14:13 -0700
      Re: mmap unuseable for interactive application? Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2011-07-18 13:49 +0100
        Re: mmap unuseable for interactive application? Peter <excessphase@gmail.com> - 2011-07-18 07:37 -0700

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