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Subject: Re: mmap (was: Re: Bash bugs (was: djgpp/libreadline bug))
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 22:16:21 -0500
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>"Rugxulo" <rugxulo AT gmail DOT com> wrote in message 
>news:ed9524fc-91bf-4479-9de7-56e304705f5e AT u22g2000yqf DOT googlegroups DOT com...

>One (non-GNU) third-party app in particular won't port to DJGPP
>because it needs mmap(), which I think I was told is default in a
>newer POSIX version. Checking the newsgroup archives here shows that
>DPMI 1.0 could maybe support such emulation, but nobody has bothered

Depending on what that application does with mmap(), it can
probably be emulated (with some overhead), even on ordinary
DPMI 0.9.  Is this an app that is worth the effort?  Does it have
a compile option to work around older systems with buggy or
inoperative mmap()?