Re: cp(1) and mmap

From: Andriy Gapon <avg_at_icyb.net.ua> Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 16:28:24 +0300 · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:39:31 UTC

on 28/05/2008 12:02 Harti Brandt said the following:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> it looks like there is no fallback in cp(1) when mmaping the source file
> fails. I'm mounting SMB shares via smbnetfs (which in turn uses fuse)
> and it seems not to support mmaping files. Shouldn't cp just fallback to
> a normal read()/write() loop in this case?

I would think that it should.
This topic was brought up several times, but no resolution so far.
I think that I've even seen patches.

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Andriy Gapon