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Re: Bug#71503: apt: [hurd] doesn't support MS_SYNC



On Wed, 13 Sep 2000 Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de wrote:

> the Hurd doesn't support MS_SYNC on mmaped memory objects, sorry,
> and it is not easy to add (because of gnumach shortage). Please add the
> following workaround: Replace the two occurences of

What!? I  hope you have a copy of the POSIX spec to back up your claim
that it is valid to define _POSIX_SYNC_IO and not implement the whole SYNC
IO interface.

AFAIK your glibc is broken, if it doesn't implement the msync syscall
as defined by POSIX it must not define _POSIX_SYNC_IO.

Jason



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