From: "Gerd Möllmann" <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: yantar92@posteo.net, 66744@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#66744: 30.0.50; Emacs crashes when re-dumping into the same dump file another Emacs instance is using
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 18:32:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m234xxs5t4.fsf@Pro.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83msw5fk9h.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 26 Oct 2023 18:58:34 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Cc: 66744@debbugs.gnu.org
>> From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>
>> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 17:45:49 +0200
>>
>> The linux man page for mmap says, according to Google,
>>
>> MAP_PRIVATE
>> ...
>> It is unspecified whether changes made to the file
>> after the mmap() call are visible in the mapped region.
>>
>> So, if the changes made to the dump file in step 3 are visible in the
>> mmaped dump file that Emacs from step 2 uses, that would be a bit
>> suboptimal :-).
>
> Emacs on GNU/Linux doesn't use mmap, we stopped doing this many years
> ago.
Ok, but I must admit that I don't see how that is done in pdumper.c.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-26 16:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-25 10:01 bug#66744: 30.0.50; Emacs crashes when re-dumping into the same dump file another Emacs instance is using Ihor Radchenko
2023-10-26 14:10 ` Gerd Möllmann
2023-10-26 14:39 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-10-26 14:42 ` Gerd Möllmann
2023-10-26 15:45 ` Gerd Möllmann
2023-10-26 15:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-26 16:32 ` Gerd Möllmann [this message]
2023-10-26 18:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-26 18:26 ` Gerd Möllmann
2023-10-26 18:34 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-10-26 18:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-26 18:47 ` Gerd Möllmann
2023-10-26 18:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-26 19:03 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-10-26 19:23 ` Gerd Möllmann
2023-10-27 5:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-26 18:42 ` Gerd Möllmann
2023-10-26 19:28 ` Andreas Schwab
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