On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 5:18 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> writes:
>> ISTM all this silliness is pretty much unique to linux anyways.
>> Instead of reading the filesystem, what about doing test map and test
>> unmap?
>
> And if mmap succeeds and munmap fails, you'll recover how exactly?
>
> If this API were less badly designed, we'd not be having this problem
> in the first place ...
I was thinking to 'guess' in a ^2 loop in the case the obvious unmap
didn't work, finally aborting if no guess worked. :-).
merlin
