From: Jurij Smakov <jurij@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 22:32:03 -0700 (PDT) > From a quick look at the code (dpkg-1.13.19), it appears that the status > file is mmap'ed for reading with > > mmap(NULL, stat.st_size, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0) > > at lib/parse.c:114. When the database is written to disk, it is > constructed line by line, which are written out to disk using fputs() > at lib/dump.c:306. The file is fflush'ed and fsync'ed after writing. This means it's probably a D-cache aliasing issue. I'll try to figure it out, thanks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
