Re: 1352 NUL bytes at the end of a page?

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds_at_osdl.org)
Date: 05/17/04

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    Date:	Mon, 17 May 2004 08:22:10 -0700 (PDT)
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

    On Mon, 17 May 2004, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
    >
    > Note though that the stdio library uses a writeable mmap to implement
    > fwrite.

    It does? Whee. Then I'll have to agree with Andrew - if there is a path
    that is more likely to have bugs, it's trying to do writes with mmap and
    ftruncate.

    Who came up with that braindead idea? Is it some crazed Mach developer
    that infiltrated the glibc development group?

                    Linus
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