On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 07:34:03AM -0400, Robert L Krawitz wrote: > > Yes, but it has other consequences that are not so benign, like being > unable to find the file that's consuming a lot of disk space. Perhaps > an alternative would be to mmap() the swap file? This would (I think) > at least allow ps to show the gimp process as being very large. > mmap() is not entirely portable to all the OSes we have GIMP working on currently. Specifically, it isn't implemented on BeOS. And unfortunately it can't be emulated either because a similar function does not exist. (On win32 I think mmap() doesn't exist either but something very similar does exist.) -Shawn -- Shawn T. Amundson amundson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Research and Development http://www.eventloop.com/ EventLoop, Inc. http://www.snorfle.net/ "The assumption that the universe looks the same in every direction is clearly not true in reality." - Stephen Hawking
