Subject: Bug#3240: [libdb]: obsolete bugfix

From: [email-masked] (J.H.M.Dassen)
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 13:18:15 +0200 (METDST)

Package: libdb
Version: 1.85.2-8

The patch of PORT/linux/OTHER_PATCHES is obsolete;
according to Linus: (Fri, 7 Jun 1996 13:54:10 +0300 (EET DST))
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> >  - mmap() checks sizes.
>
> Since you're looking at mmap again, can you tell me whether the following
> patch for libdb is still appropriate?

Nope, you can remove it. Linux still returns ETXTBSY, but it does it only if
the mapping was really a executable mapping due to execve(), not due to normal
mappings..

                Linus
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Greetings,
Ray
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