> So if I characterise the problem you think you're seeing: on mmap of a > file at a memory location to be determined by the kernel, a sequential > set of reads of the mapped location eventually turns up a zero where > there should be data? Yes, it does sound like a caching issue. Yes. The loop is terminated by a null tag: while (dyn->d_tag != DT_NULL) { ... } However, the core dump doesn't show a null tag before the STRTAB tag that caused the segmentation fault. Dave -- J. David Anglin dave.anglin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx National Research Council of Canada (613) 990-0752 (FAX: 952-6602) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html