Re: cp(1) and mmap

Diomidis Spinellis wrote:
> Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> 
> I've not seen the patches, but the fix is trivial (see the attached 
> patch).  If there are no objections, I can commit it.

Fix committed in 184342.  Sorry for the long delay.

- dds