On Wednesday 22 November 2000 20:40, Alex Zepeda wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 10:08:33AM +0100, Stephan Kulow wrote:
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> > > Yup.  Maybe the mmap code should be turned off by default...
> > >=20
> > The mmap is the whole trick behind ksycoca. If you don't map the syco=
ca
> > database, you add a overhead of quite some KB to every app
>=20
> Well, FWIW the only issues I know of generally involve writing in some
> manner (usually appending) with mmap over NFS.  Reading should be safe.
>=20
> *scratches head*
>=20
> I wonder if there's any way to disable writing w/ mmap...

We don't use mmap for writing, we use QDataStream over a QFile.

You're right. The problem has nothing to do with mmap, it's when writing =
that
some data became corrupted.

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