On Sat, Jul 25, 1998 at 03:44:45PM +1200, Alan Brown wrote: > Linux is supposed to use anonymous mmap, but it still has problems > from time-to-time with corrupted cache.mmap files. Linux doesn't support shared-anonymous pages because of the way the paging currently works. > Julian: It'd be a good idea to incorporate code to validate > cache.mmap at startup and wipe/rebuild if it's corrupted. unlink(2) the file once its created, that way when nntpcache goes away, the blocks will be released, etc. -cw
